Bug#888052: gnome-shell: Restarts every 10 minutes related to dbus-org.freedesktop.hostname1.service

[Jason Crain]

On Tue, Jan 23, 2018 at 12:09:39AM +0100, Manuel Bilderbeek wrote:
> On my system, in an interval of exactly 10 minutes, gnome-shell restarts, always in conjunction with dbus-org.freedesktop.hostname1.service. For example:
> 
> Jan 22 23:55:12 sonata dbus-daemon[513]: [system] Activating via systemd: service name='org.freedesktop.hostname1' unit='dbus-org.freedesktop.hostname1.service' requested by ':1.181' (uid=1000 pid=17229 comm=
> "/usr/bin/gnome-shell ")
> Jan 22 23:55:12 sonata systemd[1]: Starting Hostname Service...
> Jan 22 23:55:12 sonata dbus-daemon[513]: [system] Successfully activated service 'org.freedesktop.hostname1'
> Jan 22 23:55:12 sonata systemd[1]: Started Hostname Service.
> Jan 22 23:55:13 sonata gnome-session[1758]: gnome-session-binary[1758]: WARNING: App 'org.gnome.Shell.desktop' exited with code 1
> Jan 22 23:55:13 sonata gnome-session-binary[1758]: WARNING: App 'org.gnome.Shell.desktop' exited with code 1
> 
> It doesn't always happen, but if it does, it's at the same 10 minute interval:
> 
> $ sudo cat /var/log/syslog | grep "code 1" | grep "sonata gnome-session-"
> Jan 22 18:05:15 sonata gnome-session-binary[1236]: WARNING: App 'org.gnome.Shell.desktop' exited with code 1
> Jan 22 18:06:34 sonata gnome-session-binary[1758]: WARNING: App 'org.gnome.Shell.desktop' exited with code 1
> Jan 22 21:05:13 sonata gnome-session-binary[1758]: WARNING: App 'org.gnome.Shell.desktop' exited with code 1
> Jan 22 21:15:13 sonata gnome-session-binary[1758]: WARNING: App 'org.gnome.Shell.desktop' exited with code 1
> Jan 22 21:25:13 sonata gnome-session-binary[1758]: WARNING: App 'org.gnome.Shell.desktop' exited with code 1
> Jan 22 21:35:13 sonata gnome-session-binary[1758]: WARNING: App 'org.gnome.Shell.desktop' exited with code 1
> Jan 22 21:45:13 sonata gnome-session-binary[1758]: WARNING: App 'org.gnome.Shell.desktop' exited with code 1
> Jan 22 21:55:13 sonata gnome-session-binary[1758]: WARNING: App 'org.gnome.Shell.desktop' exited with code 1
> Jan 22 22:05:13 sonata gnome-session-binary[1758]: WARNING: App 'org.gnome.Shell.desktop' exited with code 1
> Jan 22 22:15:13 sonata gnome-session-binary[1758]: WARNING: App 'org.gnome.Shell.desktop' exited with code 1
> Jan 22 22:25:13 sonata gnome-session-binary[1758]: WARNING: App 'org.gnome.Shell.desktop' exited with code 1
> Jan 22 22:35:13 sonata gnome-session-binary[1758]: WARNING: App 'org.gnome.Shell.desktop' exited with code 1
> Jan 22 23:25:13 sonata gnome-session-binary[1758]: WARNING: App 'org.gnome.Shell.desktop' exited with code 1
> Jan 22 23:35:13 sonata gnome-session-binary[1758]: WARNING: App 'org.gnome.Shell.desktop' exited with code 1
> Jan 22 23:45:13 sonata gnome-session-binary[1758]: WARNING: App 'org.gnome.Shell.desktop' exited with code 1
> Jan 22 23:55:13 sonata gnome-session-binary[1758]: WARNING: App 'org.gnome.Shell.desktop' exited with code 1
> Jan 23 00:05:13 sonata gnome-session-binary[1758]: WARNING: App 'org.gnome.Shell.desktop' exited with code 1
> 
> It started after this upgrade:
> 
> ========================================
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> [UPGRADE] gjs:amd64 1.50.2-2 -> 1.50.2-3
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Does downgrading gjs to version 1.50.2-2 fix it?