Thanks. It looks like you have a gnome-shell extension that involves fetching information from the web. It doesn't appear those messages are from the gnome-shell source code. So you will need to remove whatever extension it is...
** Changed in: gnome-shell (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete => Invalid -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-shell in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1823319 Title: syslog reporting a lot of "org.gnome.Shell" fail error and laptop hanging To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-shell/+bug/1823319/+subscriptions -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs