GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 661940
Alt+Tab crashes gnome-shell
Last modified: 2013-09-07 17:24:36 UTC
Sometimes my gnome-shell seems to crash, only seems to happen when using quickly using ALT+TAB, though could be unrelated. Here's the complete output between reopening gnome-shell and a reproduced crash: (gnome-shell:11064): Clutter-WARNING **: Attempting to add actor of type 'ShellGenericContainer' to a container of type 'StBoxLayout', but the actor has already a parent of type 'StBoxLayout'. (gnome-shell:11064): St-WARNING **: Actor of type 'ShellGenericContainer' is not a child of the StBoxLayout container JS LOG: GNOME Shell started at Sun Oct 16 2011 18:01:55 GMT-0400 (EDT) (gnome-shell:11064): Clutter-CRITICAL **: clutter_text_get_editable: assertion `CLUTTER_IS_TEXT (self)' failed (gnome-shell:11064): Clutter-CRITICAL **: clutter_text_get_text: assertion `CLUTTER_IS_TEXT (self)' failed (gnome-shell:11064): Clutter-CRITICAL **: clutter_text_set_text: assertion `CLUTTER_IS_TEXT (self)' failed (gnome-shell:11064): Clutter-CRITICAL **: clutter_text_get_editable: assertion `CLUTTER_IS_TEXT (self)' failed (gnome-shell:11064): Clutter-CRITICAL **: clutter_text_get_text: assertion `CLUTTER_IS_TEXT (self)' failed (gnome-shell:11064): Clutter-CRITICAL **: clutter_text_set_text: assertion `CLUTTER_IS_TEXT (self)' failed ** ERROR:gi/object.c:671:gjs_object_instance_constructor: assertion failed: (unthreadsafe_template_for_constructor.info == NULL || strcmp(g_base_info_get_name( (GIBaseInfo*) priv->info), g_base_info_get_name( (GIBaseInfo*) unthreadsafe_template_for_constructor.info)) == 0) gnome-shell-calendar-server[11073]: Got HUP on stdin - exiting
Do you have any patches or extensions installed?
I have quite a few: windowsNavigator, Places Status Indicator, Alternative Status menu, and a Weather Indicator. I'm not sure if the alternative status menu is working officially, if not, I'm using the one out of the Arch Linux repo's: http://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/any/gnome-shell-extension-alternative-status-menu/ I'm using this weather extension package: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=49409 which is the latest git of this: https://github.com/simon04/gnome-shell-extension-weather
Can you disable all four of your extensions (with gnome-tweak-tool) and see if the Shell still crashes? If not, can you figure out which one crashes the shell?
Alright, but it's hard to reproduce, so it might take me a wile
I think the alt+tab maybe unrelated, as the only extension with issue is the alternative status, which makes me think it's the same as this: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=663879 Thus the issue is many not be caused by Alt+tab but coincidence or perhaps related to the issue of Alternative Status crashing. I can also report it arbitrarily crashing on Alt+F2 with Alternative Status on as well. Maybe it's an issue with a pop-up such as the alt-tab menu or the alt-f2 prompt? It seldom crashes but it's very annoying when it does, especially when gnome-shell doesn't restart afterwards. Sometimes requiring me to restart X
Is this still an issue?
Closing this bug report as no further information has been provided. Please feel free to reopen this bug if you can provide the information asked for. Thanks!