Description of problem: I saw this crash several times already. It happens randomly, but so far I've seen it after locking the screen and walking away, or when resuming the laptop from sleep and unlocking the screen. I get thrown to a black text-mode screen where there is no prompt, just pressed keys are echoed to the screen. I can use Ctrl+Alt+F{0-9} to switch VTs, but my session is lost and I can't even log in to a new one. A reboot is needed. Version-Release number of selected component: gnome-shell-43~rc-3.fc37 Additional info: reporter: libreport-2.17.4 backtrace_rating: 3 cgroup: 0::/user.slice/user-1000.slice/user/session.slice/org.gnome.Shell cmdline: /usr/bin/gnome-shell crash_function: clutter_actor_destroy_all_children dso_list: /usr/bin/gnome-shell gnome-shell-43~rc-3.fc37.x86_64 (Fedora Project) 1663314910 executable: /usr/bin/gnome-shell journald_cursor: s=13662ebc78cb4e6c82f032bc88453875;i=e958c;b=ad5c74de6d6340fe8311cb35517aa3ad;m=d3630bc33;t=5e8ef50a018cd;x=b8277fb654df948a kernel: 5.19.8-300.fc37.x86_64 rootdir: / runlevel: N 5 type: CCpp uid: 1000
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I believe this is the upstream bug: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/issues/5832
Possibly related? https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2124341
I'm nominating this bug as a prioritized bug. While the appindicator extension is not in a default installation and therefore it won't be even considered to be a blocker, I believe that that extension is one of the most commonly used ones. Systray area is still very relevant and needed. The fact that gnome-shell occasionally crashes while this extension is installed means that users will lose their work from time to time. Bug 2124341 shows that this might happen not just during resume or idle, but also when actively using apps. It's not clear whether this is a problem in that extension or in gnome-shell, but I believe we should at least look into it, if possible, before F37 is released.
This problem should be fixed in gnome-shell-extension-appindicator: https://github.com/ubuntu/gnome-shell-extension-appindicator/pull/364 We need the packaged Fedora extension to be updated to version 43. Fortunately, Rawhide already seems to have this version, and for other releases, the updates are going into testing here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2022-f6ad13b61a https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2022-15dc7206a9 https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2022-62155dde08 I'm proposing this for an F37 freeze exception, in case it's not pushed before the freeze starts.
The F37 update is pushed stable already, so dropping the F37 FE nomination.
I haven't seen a single crash since installing the update, so I believe we can close this.
*** Bug 2124341 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***