No, the display is not blank. The login screen is displayed. It's enough to
hover over the top right login menu to crash it.

I have no issues, when the laptop is used without external monitors. I can
live with that for a bit, but hope for help to get my developer environment
back working.

bad banana <bad.ban...@outlook.com> schrieb am So., 6. Mai 2018 um
11:16 Uhr:

> maybe, like in my case, the external monitor is being used as an extension
> of your built-in LCD display? so it appears blank.
>
> my Cinnamon crashes after i login but thankfully it restarts fine. never
> checked further as i switched to KDE Plasma due to some other reasons.
> ------------------------------
> *From:* Stefan Hübner via users <users@lists.fedoraproject.org>
> *Sent:* Friday, May 4, 2018 1:49 PM
> *To:* users@lists.fedoraproject.org
> *Cc:* Stefan Hübner
> *Subject:* F28: gnome-shell crashes when using external displays
>
> Hi,
>
> I upgraded to Fedora 28 two days ago (May 2nd). My laptop usually is
> mounted to a docking station with two Dell displays attached.
>
> Since this morning I cannot start a gnome session anymore. After login the
> shell crashes gets back to GDM. In fact it's enough to hover over the top
> right drop down menu to crash GDM.
>
> Also interesting: no fonts are displayed when using external monitors.
>
> If I restart the machine without external monitors, everything works
> flawlessly.
>
> journalctl reveals the following messages (there's also a core dump, which
> I omit for brevity):
>
> Mai 04 11:00:15 4delsthubner02 gnome-shell[2601]: Failed to allocate
> texture: Failed to create texture 2d due to size/format constraints
> Mai 04 11:00:15 4delsthubner02 kernel: gnome-shell[2601]: segfault at
> 20001 ip 00007f4361c30002 sp 00007ffd812313e0 error 4 in
> libglib-2.0.so.0.5600.1[7f4361bc6000+115000]
> Mai 04 11:00:15 4delsthubner02 audit[2601]: ANOM_ABEND auid=4294967295
> uid=42 gid=42 ses=4294967295 subj=system_u:system_r:xdm_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023
> pid=2601 comm="gnome-shell" exe="/usr/bin/gnome-shell" sig=11 res=1
> Mai 04 11:00:15 4delsthubner02 gnome-shell[2601]: cogl_object_ref:
> assertion 'object != ((void *)0)' failed
> Mai 04 11:00:15 4delsthubner02 gnome-shell[2601]:
> clutter_texture_set_cogl_texture: assertion 'cogl_is_texture (cogl_tex)'
> failed
> Mai 04 11:00:15 4delsthubner02 gnome-shell[2601]: CoglError set over the
> top of a previous CoglError or uninitialized memory.
>                                                   This indicates a bug in
> someone's code. You must ensure an error is NULL before it's set.
>                                                   The overwriting error
> message was: Sliced texture size of 16 x 16 not possible with max waste set
> to -1
> Mai 04 11:00:15 4delsthubner02 systemd[1]: Started Process Core Dump (PID
> 3049/UID 0).
>
>
> What's going on here?
>
> Best,
> Stefan Hübner
>
>
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