Bug#787728: gnome-shell on wayland segfaults after "Clutter-CRITICAL **: clutter_input_device_get_pointer_stage: assertion 'CLUTTER_IS_INPUT_DEVICE (device)' failed"

[Daniel Kahn Gillmor]

On Thu 2015-06-04 10:32:31 -0400, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote:
> On 04/06/15 15:49, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:
>> Package: gnome-shell
>> Version: 3.14.4-1
>> Severity: normal
>> 
>> trying to start gnome-shell under wayland used to work.  Today, it
>> does not, and produces this ugly segfault (taken from journald):
>
> Does it work if you downgrade clutter to 1.20?

I just tried, by doing:

   # apt install {gir1.2-clutter-1.0,libclutter-1.0-0:amd64,libclutter-1.0-common}=1.20.0-1
   # systemctl restart gdm3

and then tried logging back in via gdm using GNOME on wayland, and yes, it works
now.

Thanks for the pointers, Emilio.  Any next steps for debugging?

        --dkg