Bug#697354: gnome-shell: freezes randomly on alt-tab

[Josselin Mouette]

Le vendredi 04 janvier 2013 à 15:04 +0400, Alexander V. Kudrevatykh a
écrit : 
> Package: gnome-shell
> Version: 3.4.2-5
> Severity: normal
> 
> after last upgrades (with gc fixes) shell can randomly stop working on alt-tab
> sometimes app-launcher (input window that shown on alt+F2) can say that not
> enough memory to fork, but system has more than half of memory free.
> kill -9 from linux console helps - shell restarts and some time works fine.

Are you sure this does not happen with 3.4.2-4 or 3.4.2-3 ? If this new
version is the only one affected, I am afraid we will be entering deep
in the innards of gjs/mozjs memory management…

In all cases, I am interested in a backtrace (thread apply all bt full)
of the hanging process with debugging symbols installed. You’ll have to
rebuild the mozjs source with DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip too.

Cheers,
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