I too suffered from this. Gnome-shell crashed whenever i tried to search for an application.
The workaround was to empty the file ~/.local/share/recently-used.xbel and then make it immutable with sudo chattr +i ~/.local/share/recently-used.xbel Now it doesn't crash, and I've only lost some functionality I didn't use. Arch users are suffering too, and this is where I learned of the workaround: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=135826&p=1 Alan. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org