Bug 1344211

Summary: gnome-shell crashes after some minutes
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: manuel
Component: gnome-shellAssignee: Owen Taylor <otaylor>
Status: CLOSED UPSTREAM QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Priority: unspecified    
Version: 24CC: fmuellner, leo.hermans, manuel, otaylor, plazaga, yurg27
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Hardware: x86_64   
OS: Linux   
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Fixed In Version: gnome-shell-3.20.3-1.fc24 Doc Type: If docs needed, set a value
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Last Closed: 2016-07-29 07:21:35 UTC Type: Bug
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Possible journalctl entries of crash
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Description manuel 2016-06-09 08:02:08 UTC
Created attachment 1166193 [details]
Possible journalctl entries of crash

Description of problem:

After starting a new Gnome session, ~ 5 minutes later the session crashes and the TTY appears. The Gnome session itself is still running and one could switch back to it by Alt-F2. After restarting Gnome (Alt-F2 -> “r”) everything’s back to normal and the crash does not appear again. So perhaps only new sessions are affected.

Bug might be already fixed upstream. See
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=764898

According to the above mentioned bug report, only Hardware with Nvidia Graphics controller + nvidia kernel modules are affected.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

3.20.2

How reproducible:

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start a new Gnome session.
2. Wait for some minutes.

Actual results:

Session crashes and TTY is shown.

Expected results:

Gnome session stays up and running.

Additional info:

Fedora 24 beta
Graphics card: Nvidia GeForce GTX 750 Ti
Kmod nvidia version 358.16
Kernel version 4.5.5-300.fc24.x86_64

The crash did not appear under Fedora 23.

Comment 1 Paul Lazaga 2016-06-26 18:49:13 UTC
(In reply to manuel from comment #0)
> Created attachment 1166193 [details]
> Possible journalctl entries of crash
> 
> Description of problem:
> 
> After starting a new Gnome session, ~ 5 minutes later the session crashes
> and the TTY appears. The Gnome session itself is still running and one could
> switch back to it by Alt-F2. After restarting Gnome (Alt-F2 -> “r”)
> everything’s back to normal and the crash does not appear again. So perhaps
> only new sessions are affected.
> 
> Bug might be already fixed upstream. See
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=764898
> 
> According to the above mentioned bug report, only Hardware with Nvidia
> Graphics controller + nvidia kernel modules are affected.
> 
> Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
> 
> 3.20.2
> 
> How reproducible:
> 
> Steps to Reproduce:
> 1. Start a new Gnome session.
> 2. Wait for some minutes.
> 
> Actual results:
> 
> Session crashes and TTY is shown.
> 
> Expected results:
> 
> Gnome session stays up and running.
> 
> Additional info:
> 
> Fedora 24 beta
> Graphics card: Nvidia GeForce GTX 750 Ti
> Kmod nvidia version 358.16
> Kernel version 4.5.5-300.fc24.x86_64
> 
> The crash did not appear under Fedora 23.

I am seeing this behavior as well.

Fedora 24
Graphics Nvidia GeForce GTX 550 Ti
Driver 367.27-2.fc24
Kernel 4.5.7-300.fc24
gnome-shell 3.20.2-1.fc24

Comment 2 leo hermans 2016-06-27 11:47:27 UTC
Experiencing the same problem. After 5 minutes the desktop disappears and TTY is showing. Alt-F2 does restore the desktop but I have to refresh the background most of the time because it is distorted. 
I enclose the journalctl output of the sec the desktop fails. Looks like nVidia problem to me.


Fedora 24
Graphics: GeForce GTX 960/PCIe/SSE2
NVidia: version 367.27  (buildmeister@swio-display-x64-rhel04-12)
Kernel: 4.5.7-300.fc24.x86_64
Gnome: Version 3.20.2

Comment 3 leo hermans 2016-06-27 11:49:46 UTC
Created attachment 1172861 [details]
Journalctl output desktop crash

Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2016-06-29 00:03:56 UTC
mutter-3.20.3-1.fc24 gnome-shell-3.20.3-1.fc24 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 24. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2016-fb66c6e22c

Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2016-06-29 22:55:52 UTC
gnome-shell-3.20.3-1.fc24, mutter-3.20.3-1.fc24 has been pushed to the Fedora 24 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for
instructions on how to install test updates.
You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2016-fb66c6e22c

Comment 6 Fedora Update System 2016-06-30 21:23:05 UTC
gnome-shell-3.20.3-1.fc24, mutter-3.20.3-1.fc24 has been pushed to the Fedora 24 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 7 manuel 2016-07-29 07:21:35 UTC
Since upgrading to gnome-shell-3.20.3-1.fc24 the bug did not appear again.