l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: > Mohammed Sadiq <sa...@sadiqpk.org> skribis: > >> This crash appears to happen on dragging anything on gnome-shell. >> >> Eg: >> 1. If a window is dragged in shell overview >> 2. if a window in desktop list (in the right side) is dragged. >> 3. if some icon from Application list is dragged. >> >> Also, the immediately followed drag after the first failure results in a >> total >> crash losing all the open window and goes back to slim login. > > A serious problem. > >> So the bug severity may be increased if this is reproducible to some >> one.
The same bug has been present in GNOME on GuixSD since the beginning of our GNOME support. I can confirm that it's 100% reproducible on my GuixSD system, and as I recall it's been confirmed by David Thompson and Andy Wingo at least. > Mohammed, do you think this could be Guix-specific? Intuitively I would > guess that this can only be an upstream bug, but you know GNOME better > than I do. :-) I can confirm that the problem does not occur on Debian, and I've not found reports of it happening on any other mainstream distro. I would guess that our unusual filesystem layout prevents GNOME Shell from finding something that it's looking for, and that the error handling in that case is deficient or non-existent. In case anyone missed it, Thomas Danckaert recently made a significant contribution to discovering the cause of this bug, and provided a workaround: https://bugs.gnu.org/24445#8 Given this, I suspect that it would not take long for a motivated developer to complete the investigation and fix this bug properly. Mark
