For what it's worth, I killed my Xserver and in started mutter 47.0-1ubuntu5 so:
startx /bin/mutter --x11 &> logmutter I spawned a Xterm in it and ran mutter --x11 --replace &> logmutter2 I didn't get that crash looking but indeed the replace failed as I got thrown back to the virtual console. ** Attachment added: "Xorg.0.log.old" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2069564/+attachment/5838126/+files/Xorg.0.log.old ** Attachment added: "logmutter" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2069564/+attachment/5838127/+files/logmutter ** Attachment added: "logmutter2" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2069564/+attachment/5838128/+files/logmutter2 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to mutter in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2069564 Title: gnome-shell crashed with SIGTRAP in meta_wayland_compositor_new() from meta_context_start() from main() ["Failed to start X Wayland: Directory \"/tmp/.X11-unix\" is not writable"] Status in mutter package in Ubuntu: Fix Committed Status in mutter source package in Oracular: Triaged Status in mutter source package in Plucky: Fix Committed Bug description: If you are hitting this bug, please write your case in https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/merge_requests/3984. > it'd be good to know when this actually happens to evaluate why it happens, and then evaluate if there is anything we should change. --------------- The Ubuntu Error Tracker has been receiving reports about a problem regarding gnome-shell. This problem was most recently seen with package version 46.0-0ubuntu5.1, the problem page at https://errors.ubuntu.com/problem/a7dbd55723a8ea326d1ccf32e31fe307151786c2 contains more details, including versions of packages affected, stacktrace or traceback, and individual crash reports. If you do not have access to the Ubuntu Error Tracker and are a software developer, you can request it at http://forms.canonical.com/reports/. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mutter/+bug/2069564/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
