[Bug 1906137] Re: gnome-shell on 20.10 crashes all the time

2020-11-29 Thread Daniel van Vugt
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1872461 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1872461 Yes bug 1897765 relates to window resizing and going fullscreen. So a lot of gamers have been reporting it. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is

[Bug 1906137] Re: gnome-shell on 20.10 crashes all the time

2020-11-29 Thread Tessa
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1872461 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1872461 awesome, glad to hear it. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1906137 Title: gnome-shell on

[Bug 1906137] Re: gnome-shell on 20.10 crashes all the time

2020-11-29 Thread Tessa
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1872461 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1872461 and this is all after uninstalling the sound-output-device-chooser extension, so I feel like that's a bit of a red herring for my actual issue. -- You received this bug notification because you are a

[Bug 1906137] Re: gnome-shell on 20.10 crashes all the time

2020-11-29 Thread Tessa
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1872461 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1872461 had another crash immediately after. seems like the primary trigger is playing games in steam, especially games using the proton runtime layer for running windows games. so it seems like something's perhaps

[Bug 1906137] Re: gnome-shell on 20.10 crashes all the time

2020-11-29 Thread Daniel van Vugt
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1872461 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1872461 That's easy, and a common one. It's bug 1897765 which I am trying to get a fix released for ASAP. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to

[Bug 1906137] Re: gnome-shell on 20.10 crashes all the time

2020-11-29 Thread Tessa
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1872461 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1872461 just had another crash, with all the extensions disabled. I tried running ubuntu-bug on the crash file, but it didn't give me a bug to link in here, not sure why. the error it reported is: "gnome-shell

[Bug 1906137] Re: gnome-shell on 20.10 crashes all the time

2020-11-29 Thread Daniel van Vugt
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1872461 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1872461 Thanks. That link shows all your recent gnome-shell crashes are the same; bug 1872461. So to avoid gnome-shell crashing you should just need to uninstall the one extension: 'sound-output-device-chooser'.

[Bug 1906137] Re: gnome-shell on 20.10 crashes all the time

2020-11-29 Thread Tessa
hey Daniel, if I'm reading the first part of your reply right, it sounds like gnome- shell extensions can hard crash gnome-shell? which means it's not safe to ever use any extensions? i feel like i must be misunderstanding that, since ubuntu distributes a set of extensions by default in the

[Bug 1906137] Re: gnome-shell on 20.10 crashes all the time

2020-11-29 Thread Tessa
it's also worth noting that my laptop, which is also seeing a bunch of these crashes on gnome-shell, doesn't have any extra extensions installed that don't come from Ubuntu. this may be coincidence, but it does feel off that after upgrading to 20.10 both my systems that run Ubuntu on the desktop

[Bug 1906137] Re: gnome-shell on 20.10 crashes all the time

2020-11-29 Thread Daniel van Vugt
Since so many bugs are caused by extensions, the first thing you should try is removing these: 'putwin...@clemens.lab21.org', 'sound-output-device- choo...@kgshank.net', 'openweather-extens...@jenslody.de', 'update- extensi...@franglais125.gmail.com', 'appindicatorsupp...@rgcjonas.gmail.com',

[Bug 1906137] Re: gnome-shell on 20.10 crashes all the time

2020-11-28 Thread Chris Guiver
Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Bug reporting is mostly about finding & fixing problems thus preventing future users from hitting the same bug. If you want a support site ("how do I track down..") you can use