The above comment
(https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mutter/+bug/2016308/comments/6)
pertained to running Wayland.
I switched to Xorg and the behaviour was slightly different.
Under Xorg the libmutter assert failed leading to gnome-shell "Bail
out!' same as before, except that instead of
I experienced this problem today on 23.04 with latest (production)
updates.
The tags on this bug appear to say it was fixed in mutter "44.1" however
fully updated 23.04 systems still have mutter 44.0:
# apt list --installed | grep -i mutter
gir1.2-mutter-12/lunar,now 44.0-2ubuntu4 amd64 [installe