Hi, Christopher Howard <christop...@librehacker.com> writes:
> Hello, after a guix pull yesterday, I did a guix system reconfigure > and a home reconfigure. After rebooting, I have this problem where > after logging in to Gnome desktop, the gnome shell will crash with a > meaningless error message "something went wrong" and then drop me back > to GDM. The crash is not immediate but can take 1-2 minutes before it > occurs. I am able to use the virtual console still, but Gnome desktop > is rendered useless. I can use the guix roll-back functionality to go > back to my previous system and home configuration and everything works > again. > > After the crash occurs, I can look at the output of dmesg and see that > there are segfaults occuring in various services. I have attached the > dmesg output. > > > > Here is the information on the current commit: > > ``` guix describe > Generation 156 Mar 18 2025 06:51:05 (current) > guix fa39695 > repository URL: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git > branch: master > commit: fa39695bbc0c5f79838cbca55d55eebd821a8efa > ``` Thanks for the report. I cannot reproduce using a VM like: $(./pre-inst-env guix system vm gnu/system/examples/desktop.tmpl) -m 4g Did you try rebooting? This would clear the GDM state files, kept on a tmpfs. I don't have a clear idea. Mutter was recently updated but that doesn't seem to cause a regression, as shown above. -- Thanks, Maxim
