On Sun, Mar 17, 2019 at 04:44:28PM -0700, Ryan Freeman wrote: > On Tue, Mar 05, 2019 at 10:40:48AM -0800, Ryan Freeman wrote: > > Hello! > > > > In testing my way around a www/chromium-related crash, I created > > a brand new test user. I was surprised to see that this fresh > > user, logging in from gdm, never makes it to gnome desktop. > > I've been checking this after every snapshot update, clean new user, > try and log in with this user from GDM, gnome-shell never makes it > to life. As of snapshot 2019/03/15 and matching packages, and > today (2019/03/17) snap.
I can reproduce this on a fresh install with a user account in the default login class. The problem disappears if I move that user into login class 'staff'. I suppose the problem is that gjs's javescript engine wants to allocate more memory than the default limits allow for.
