Public bug reported: this is probably a dupe of a bunch of other gnome-shell crashing bugs. just noting that since upgrading to 20.10, both my systems (which use the nvidia binary X drivers) have gnome-shell crashing multiple times a day. it restarts fine, but while it's crashing it locks up the whole system for a minute or two. no idea why the release in 20.10 is so much more unstable than 20.04, but here we are.
as a starting point, how do I track down what it considers the cause of the crashes? I can't discern anything particularly useful from `journalctl` at first glance. is there a specific error message I can search for in all the noise to find where it crashed and see what happened right before that? I see a lot of these in the logs, but they seem to be non-fatal, and they also don't print out any actual stack traces to examine: Nov 28 22:07:16 boxxy gnome-shell[222384]: == Stack trace for context 0x55995401f220 == Nov 28 22:07:16 boxxy gnome-shell[222384]: == Stack trace for context 0x55995401f220 == Nov 28 22:07:16 boxxy gnome-shell[222384]: == Stack trace for context 0x55995401f220 == Nov 28 22:07:16 boxxy gnome-shell[222384]: == Stack trace for context 0x55995401f220 == Nov 28 22:07:16 boxxy gnome-shell[222384]: == Stack trace for context 0x55995401f220 == Nov 28 22:07:16 boxxy gnome-shell[222384]: == Stack trace for context 0x55995401f220 == Nov 28 22:07:16 boxxy gnome-shell[222384]: == Stack trace for context 0x55995401f220 == Nov 28 22:07:16 boxxy gnome-shell[222384]: == Stack trace for context 0x55995401f220 == Nov 28 22:07:16 boxxy gnome-shell[222384]: == Stack trace for context 0x55995401f220 == ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.10 Package: gnome-shell 3.38.1-1ubuntu1.1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.8.0-29.31-lowlatency 5.8.14 Uname: Linux 5.8.0-29-lowlatency x86_64 NonfreeKernelModules: zfs zunicode zavl icp zcommon znvpair nvidia_modeset nvidia ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu50.2 Architecture: amd64 CasperMD5CheckResult: skip CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME Date: Sat Nov 28 22:11:09 2020 DisplayManager: gdm3 InstallationDate: Installed on 2020-07-15 (137 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 20.04 LTS "Focal Fossa" - Release amd64 (20200423) RelatedPackageVersions: mutter-common 3.38.1-1ubuntu1 SourcePackage: gnome-shell UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to groovy on 2020-10-24 (36 days ago) ** Affects: gnome-shell (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: amd64 apport-bug groovy -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1906137 Title: gnome-shell on 20.10 crashes all the time To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-shell/+bug/1906137/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs