Package: gnome-session Version: 3.14.0-2 Severity: normal
Hi, if the Gnome session crashes it disables all extensions: >>> Oh no! Something has gone wrong. A problem has occured and the system can't recover. All extensions have been disabled as a precaution. <<< I've been hit by this a few times. But it never was the fault of an extension and I always could reproduce the crash with all extensions disabled (bug #782075 (gnome-tweak-tool), IIRC bug #762809 (libgl1-mesa-dri) and some bug in pidgin which was solved in the meantime). So in 3 out of 3 times Gnome made the situation worse by this "precaution". I'd prefer a dialog which offers and recommends to disable all extensions, but allows to manually select which extensions shall stay enabled. At least I'd like to see a list of extensions that actually were disabled. [Rant/Reasons why this reduces the benefit of the extensions system] It is quite annoying to have to re-enable all extensions manually, and to have to remember which extensions were enabled at all. By now I only have one extension installed. I started with about 5 extensions which were mainly nice-to-have. After using the system happily for about a year the Gnome session crashed. It took me some time to figure out which extension initially helped me to get back the blinking Pidgin icon (I chose "Topicons" out of 3 or 4 candidates, where the others give the notification only for a short time or in a manner that I didn't notice). I didn't go in reevaluating every other installed extension that time and for now will keep track of installed extensions manually. I also set up Debian for non-tech-savvy people. Due to the risk of "loosing" the extensions, I prefer not to use extensions there at all and instead show them other, more complicated but failproof methods for doing certain tasks. (Writing down a list of extensions and showing them how to enable them AND making them remember this, if Gnome crashes some time in the future is not realistic.) [/Rant] Should I report/discuss this upstream? If yes: where? Or has it already been discussed (again where? I haven't found anything)? Thanks and greets jre -- System Information: Debian Release: 8.0 APT prefers testing APT policy: (900, 'testing'), (300, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages gnome-session depends on: ii gnome-session-bin 3.14.0-2 ii gnome-session-common 3.14.0-2 ii gnome-settings-daemon 3.14.2-3 ii gnome-shell 3.14.2-3+b1 gnome-session recommends no packages. Versions of packages gnome-session suggests: ii desktop-base 8.0.2 ii gnome-keyring 3.14.0-1+b1 ii gnome-user-guide 3.14.1-1 -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
