On Fri, Mar 22, 2019 at 05:02:17PM +0100, Stefan Sperling wrote: > 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. >
Thanks Stefan, I modified my test user to be a member of the 'staff' login class, and now it does indeed work. Now I can confirm chrome crashes on fresh user with fresh gnome, as well. I shall update that thread. -ryan
