Or just keep an eye on the list of descriptors in: /proc/PIDOFGNOMESHELL/fd/
and see if it grows with any duplicates. ** Changed in: gnome-shell (Ubuntu) Status: New => Incomplete -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-shell in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1776916 Title: gnome-shell crashed with SIGSEGV [Creating pipes for GWakeup: Too many open files] Status in gnome-shell package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: Crashed when changing the volume with the keyboard's function keys. ProblemType: Crash DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.10 Package: gnome-shell 3.28.1-0ubuntu2 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.15.0-22.24-generic 4.15.17 Uname: Linux 4.15.0-22-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.20.10-0ubuntu3 Architecture: amd64 CrashCounter: 1 CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME Date: Thu Jun 14 15:41:10 2018 DisplayManager: gdm3 ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-shell InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-07-15 (1430 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.10 "Utopic Unicorn" - Alpha amd64 (20140520) ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/gnome-shell SegvAnalysis: Segfault happened at: 0x7f3548500351: rep movsq %ds:(%rsi),%es:(%rdi) PC (0x7f3548500351) ok source "%ds:(%rsi)" (0x00000000) not located in a known VMA region (needed readable region)! destination "%es:(%rdi)" (0x7f34c56fd7e0) ok Stack memory exhausted (SP below stack segment) SegvReason: reading NULL VMA Signal: 11 SourcePackage: gnome-shell StacktraceTop: () at /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0 g_main_context_new () at /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0 () at /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgio-2.0.so.0 g_initable_new_valist () at /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgio-2.0.so.0 g_initable_new () at /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgio-2.0.so.0 Title: gnome-shell crashed with SIGSEGV UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to cosmic on 2018-03-24 (81 days ago) UserGroups: adm cdrom dip docker kvm libvirt libvirtd lpadmin lxd plugdev sambashare sudo To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-shell/+bug/1776916/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp