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debo

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[SOLVED] Gnome-shell 1:40.0-1 Crashes When Trying To Login

I just did a pacman -Syu, and now I cannot login on the console. I searched, but did not see any other report of this problem.

The journal indicates that gnome-shell is crashing.

Known issue?

Last edited by debo (2021-05-11 20:53:30)

debo

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Re: [SOLVED] Gnome-shell 1:40.0-1 Crashes When Trying To Login

I notice now that there is a funny version of gnome-shell in testing since 4/15. Perhaps someone is working on this?

debo

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Re: [SOLVED] Gnome-shell 1:40.0-1 Crashes When Trying To Login

I filed a bug about this:

https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/70493

debo

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Re: [SOLVED] Gnome-shell 1:40.0-1 Crashes When Trying To Login

I updated to the new gnome-shell and mutter, and I updated the bug.

debo

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Re: [SOLVED] Gnome-shell 1:40.0-1 Crashes When Trying To Login

The problem has been identified as a bug in mutter. The problem manifests if you have either 'dwell-click' or 'secondary-click' enabled on the pointing device, The workaround is to either turn both of these off, or run GNOME under X11 for now.

The GNOME bug report is:

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/issues/1765

debo

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Re: [SOLVED] Gnome-shell 1:40.0-1 Crashes When Trying To Login

Fixed by upgrading to latest mutter.