It's possible that this is related to the Mutter fix from last week which manifests itself via changes to the launcher. However, this should have been fixed on Friday. Can you add some steps to reproduce?
** Tags removed: rls-ee-incoming -- 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/1845017 Title: Desktop hard lockup in 19.10 Status in gnome-shell package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: Upgraded from 18.04 to 19.04 (then 19.10 last week in Paris). Had a few desktop shell lockups. Pattern seems to be when running snap refresh, but this time happened when running snapcraft --use-lxd. Feels like something related to mounting / unmounting devices. Got this from the journal. Sep 23 16:40:48 KinkPad-K450 gnome-shell[18382]: JS ERROR: TypeError: dock._settings is undefined _showOverlay@/usr/share/gnome-shell/extensions/ubuntu-d...@ubuntu.com/docking.js:1438:1 _enableHotKeys/</<@/usr/share/gnome-shell/extensions/ubuntu-d...@ubuntu.com/docking.js:1364:43 Sep 23 16:40:50 KinkPad-K450 gnome-shell[18382]: Object .Gjs_AppSwitcherPopup (0x55c6beed6cd0), has been already deallocated β impossible to access it. This might be caused by the object having been destroyed from C code using something such as destroy(), dispose(), or remove() vfuncs. Sep 23 16:40:50 KinkPad-K450 gnome-shell[18382]: clutter_actor_destroy: assertion 'CLUTTER_IS_ACTOR (self)' failed Sep 23 16:40:50 KinkPad-K450 gnome-shell[18382]: == Stack trace for context 0x55c6b32ad340 == Sep 23 16:40:50 KinkPad-K450 gnome-shell[18382]: #0 55c6c495dd80 i resource:///org/gnome/shell/ui/windowManager.js:2066 (7f9824c38c10 @ 410) Sep 23 16:40:50 KinkPad-K450 gnome-shell[18382]: #1 7fff0356c950 b self-hosted:981 (7f9824d29f70 @ 474) http://paste.ubuntu.com/p/txsGG5dTQw/ ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 19.10 Package: gnome-shell 3.34.0-1ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.3.0-10.11-generic 5.3.0-rc8 Uname: Linux 5.3.0-10-generic x86_64 NonfreeKernelModules: zfs zunicode zavl icp zcommon znvpair ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu7 Architecture: amd64 Date: Mon Sep 23 16:52:06 2019 DisplayManager: gdm3 InstallationDate: Installed on 2018-02-04 (595 days ago) InstallationMedia: neon userlts "Xenial" - Build amd64 LIVE Binary 20180202-11:07 RelatedPackageVersions: mutter-common 3.34.0-3ubuntu1 SourcePackage: gnome-shell UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to eoan on 2019-09-19 (4 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-shell/+bug/1845017/+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