Yes it makes sense if the shell crashes then very likely you have no Xorg server to run xrandr against :)
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-shell in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1722886 Title: Include logs, monitors.xml and org.gnome.desktop.* settings in the apport-retrace data Status in gnome-shell package in Ubuntu: In Progress Bug description: When a bug is submitted to ubuntu about gnome-shell it would be convenient to have such settings. Monitors.xml is quite important to understand the configuration for mutter-related crashes, while other desktop settings (to be filtered- out) could be needed too. Ah, also the logs from journalctl /usr/bin/gnome-shell -b -o short-iso Proposed fix at https://salsa.debian.org/gnome-team/gnome- shell/merge_requests/23/ To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-shell/+bug/1722886/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp