[Bug 1799787] Re: Dash to Dock behaves strangely then gnome-shell crashes when forcing a restart

2018-10-26 Thread Paul White
After extensive testing I can now document how to reproduce the crash using four workspaces and four applications. With just one workspace enabled, several applications can be started and gnome-shell can be restarted with 'Alt F2 > r and enter' without issue. With multiple workspaces enabled, sev

[Bug 1799787] Re: Dash to Dock behaves strangely then gnome-shell crashes when forcing a restart

2018-10-26 Thread Paul White
Daniel, I would change the bug description but as I see someone else has also marked this bug as affecting them I'll leave that to you. :) I now think that the dash to dock bugs are those that have have already been reported elsewhere and are nothing to do with the crash. I would not have restart

[Bug 1799787] Re: Dash to Dock behaves strangely then gnome-shell crashes when forcing a restart

2018-10-25 Thread Daniel van Vugt
The above link is actually bug 1796607. Interesting. Someone else mentioned yesterday that same crash. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1799787 Title: Dash to Dock behaves strangely th

[Bug 1799787] Re: Dash to Dock behaves strangely then gnome-shell crashes when forcing a restart

2018-10-25 Thread Paul White
Thanks for your reply Daniel. It's now looking as if the problems with the dash are a symptom of a crash rather than a cause. After rebooting and disabling all extensions I can restart gnome-shell with 'Alt F2 > r and enter' several times with a problem. After starting some applications gnome-she

[Bug 1799787] Re: Dash to Dock behaves strangely then gnome-shell crashes when forcing a restart

2018-10-24 Thread Daniel van Vugt
Firstly, please remove/disable all gnome-shell extensions as extensions are a common cause of bugs and crashes. You have a lot of them: b'org.gnome.shell' b'enabled-extensions' b"['user-theme@gnome-shell- extensions.gcampax.github.com', 'window-list@gnome-shell- extensions.gcampax.github.com', 'wi