Bug 1288931

Summary: System locked up when journal flooded with Wayland and/or Mutter error messages.
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Dan Loomis <danloomis47>
Component: waylandAssignee: Adam Jackson <ajax>
Status: CLOSED EOL QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 23CC: ajax, fedora, jawnsy, leho, mclasen, vrutkovs
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Description Dan Loomis 2015-12-07 03:51:57 UTC
Fedora 23 running Wayland.  Firefox session, three windows open.   
Show All Bookmarks window opened.  Horrible response time when clicking on a folder.
System became non responsive and was restarted with the power switch.

Found the following in journalctl after reboot.
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Dec 05 20:11:14 antares firefox.desktop[6031]: 1449375074035        addons.update-checker        WARN        Update manifest for {972ce4c6-7e08-4474-a285-3208198ce6fd} did not contain an updates property
Dec 05 20:53:51 antares systemd[1]: Starting dnf makecache...
Dec 05 20:53:51 antares dnf[9265]: cachedir: /var/cache/dnf
Dec 05 20:53:51 antares dnf[9265]: Loaded plugins: builddep, reposync, protected_packages, download, Query, config-manager, needs-restarting, copr, debuginfo-install, noroot, playground, generate_completion_cache
Dec 05 20:53:51 antares dnf[9265]: DNF version: 1.1.4
Dec 05 20:53:51 antares dnf[9265]: Making cache files for all metadata files.
Dec 05 20:53:51 antares dnf[9265]: Metadata cache refreshed recently.
Dec 05 20:53:51 antares systemd[1]: Started dnf makecache.
Dec 05 20:53:51 antares audit[1]: SERVICE_START pid=1 uid=0 auid=4294967295 ses=4294967295 subj=system_u:system_r:init_t:s0 msg='unit=dnf-makecache comm="systemd" exe="/usr/lib/systemd/systemd" hostname=? addr=? terminal=? res=success'
Dec 05 20:53:51 antares audit[1]: SERVICE_STOP pid=1 uid=0 auid=4294967295 ses=4294967295 subj=system_u:system_r:init_t:s0 msg='unit=dnf-makecache comm="systemd" exe="/usr/lib/systemd/systemd" hostname=? addr=? terminal=? res=success'

Line 25510 in journalctl dump.
Dec 05 20:54:52 antares gnome-shell-wayland.desktop[2148]: (gnome-shell:2148): mutter-WARNING **: Error transfering wayland clipboard to X11: Operation was cancelled
Dec 05 20:54:52 antares gnome-shell-wayland.desktop[2148]: (gnome-shell:2148): mutter-WARNING **: Error transfering wayland clipboard to X11: Operation was cancelled
Dec 05 20:54:52 antares gnome-shell-wayland.desktop[2148]: (gnome-shell:2148): mutter-WARNING **: Error transfering wayland clipboard to X11: Operation was cancelled

Line 28264 in journalctl dump.
Dec 05 20:54:53 antares gnome-shell-wayland.desktop[2148]: (gnome-shell:2148): mutter-WARNING **: Error transfering wayland clipboard to X11: Operation was cancelled
Dec 05 20:55:22 antares systemd-journal[631]: Suppressed 168751 messages from /user.slice/user-1000.slice
Dec 05 20:55:22 antares gnome-shell-wayland.desktop[2148]: (gnome-shell:2148): mutter-CRITICAL **: Failed to open pipe: Too many open files
Dec 05 20:55:22 antares gnome-shell-wayland.desktop[2148]: (gnome-shell:2148): mutter-WARNING **: Error transfering wayland clipboard to X11: Operation was cancelled

Line 31012 in journalctl dump.
Dec 05 20:55:41 antares gnome-shell-wayland.desktop[2148]: (gnome-shell:2148): mutter-WARNING **: Error transfering wayland clipboard to X11: Operation was cancelled
Dec 05 20:55:55 antares systemd-journal[631]: Suppressed 45032 messages from /user.slice/user-1000.slice
Dec 05 20:55:55 antares gnome-shell-wayland.desktop[2148]: (gnome-shell:2148): mutter-CRITICAL **: Failed to open pipe: Too many open files
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Everything worked fine after the reboot.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
[djl@antares ~]$ dnf list installed | grep wayland
gnome-session-wayland-session.x86_64   3.18.1.2-2.fc23          @updates        
ibus-wayland.x86_64                    1.5.11-1.fc23            @koji-override-0
libwayland-client.x86_64               1.9.0-1.fc23             @koji-override-0
libwayland-cursor.x86_64               1.9.0-1.fc23             @koji-override-0
libwayland-server.x86_64               1.9.0-1.fc23             @koji-override-0
mesa-libwayland-egl.x86_64             11.0.6-1.20151122.fc23   @updates        
xorg-x11-server-Xwayland.x86_64        1.18.0-2.fc23            @updates        
[djl@antares ~]$ dnf list installed | grep mutter
mutter.x86_64                          3.18.2-1.fc23            @updates        
[djl@antares ~]$ uname -a
Linux antares 4.2.6-301.fc23.x86_64 #1 SMP Fri Nov 20 22:22:41 UTC 2015 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

How reproducible:  Only observed once.  

Steps to Reproduce:  Unknown.

Actual results:  System locked up.

Expected results:  System should run as normal.

Additional info:

Comment 1 Jonathan Yu 2016-03-21 17:52:39 UTC
This bug is not Fedora-specific; here's a link to a corresponding Debian bug: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=809787

It was also forwarded upstream to the GNOME project as: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=760745

Comment 2 Matthias Clasen 2016-09-01 12:37:55 UTC
The upstream bug has a comment that seems to indicate that this is fixed.
Is anybody still seeing this problem with f25 ?

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Comment 5 Christian Stadelmann 2017-02-07 13:51:28 UTC
I am not seeing this issue with wayland and/or mutter error messages any more, nor do I see this with clipboard-related stuff. I am seeing another bug causing the file limit to be reached ("too many open files") which causes gnome-shell to crash the whole session: bug #1401217.