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Jannusch

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Registered: 2020-06-28

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gnome-shell ends in SIGSEGV during login for specific user and wayland

Hello,
since a few days I can't login with my "normal" user account to gnome with wayland. I think, the last thing I did was updating Docker Desktop (but I'm not sure).
I can use everything as normal if I use an other user, X11 or sway (even with my normal user).

journalctl -xe

shows me that gnome-shell ends in a core dump.
I tried to inspect the core dump but can't figure out the problem (I mean the SIGSEGV is the error, but what causes the error I don't know).
Due to the fact that it looks like a problem with my user specific configuration, I tried to remove everything that is user specific (~/.config/autostart/).
I also enabled the debug option for gdm.

I also tried to start gnome-session with the `-f` option to disable everything but I think I wasn't able to do this correctly. I edited the gnome.desktop entry that will be used by gdm.
I also tried to start gnome from a tty session with:

dbus-run-session -- gnome-shell --display-server --wayland

but same problem.

I'm not sure what to try next or how to find the exact cause of the SIGSEGV. Due to the fact that I did not know what a good start point is, I didn't include any error message.

Thanks for help.
Jannusch

Last edited by Jannusch (2023-11-28 13:23:34)

seth

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Re: gnome-shell ends in SIGSEGV during login for specific user and wayland

shows me that gnome-shell ends in a core dump.
I tried to inspect the core dump but can't figure out the problem (I mean the SIGSEGV is the error, but what causes the error I don't know).
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I'm not sure what to try next or how to find the exact cause of the SIGSEGV. Due to the fact that I did not know what a good start point is, I didn't include any error message.

But it doesn't show /us/.
Please don't paraphrase, https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=57855
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Core_d … _core_dump

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