GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 793066
Xwayland killed by SIGABRT - xorg-x11-server quit unexpectedly
Last modified: 2018-02-06 20:00:41 UTC
Created attachment 367703 [details] Journal log of the past two hours with the crash occuring. Every time I plug in an external storage device (HDD or flashdrive) via an USB port (tested both with 2.0 and 3.0) Xwayland crashes and the user session is terminated. When logging in again the device is recognised and accessible, but when unmounted the user session terminated again. I tested it also on X11. There the Xorg server restarted without killing the user session when plugging in a storage device, but when unmounting it again the user session was terminated. I tried reporting the bug with ABRT, but the backtrace was unusable. Still, I have it saved, if needed. This issue occurred with GNOME 3.26.2 on Fedora 27 x64, on a laptop with 7.7Gb RAM, Intel® Pentium(R) CPU N3530 @ 2.16GHz × 4 processor and Intel® Bay Trail Graphics.
This seems like a duplicate of https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gjs/issues/33. Updating gjs to 1.50.4 should help. Please report a bug at https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gjs/issues if it doesn’t.
Here is a link to F27 update: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2018-653f7b61ef
I installed gjs 1.50.4 from the testing repo, it indeed solved the issue and up until now it hasn't caused any problems.
Note that gjs 1.50.4 has been moved to stable, solving the issue (according to the reports), see https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2018-653f7b61ef