Bug#899004: gnome-shell: crash on attempt to lock

[Josep M. Perez]

Hi,

Since the last update I have locked and unlocked my session several 
times, and rebooted three times and I haven't had any more problems. The 
current set of enabled-extensions is: 
['ubuntu-appindicators at ubuntu.com', 
'GPaste at gnome-shell-extensions.gnome.org', 
'drive-menu at gnome-shell-extensions.gcampax.github.com'].

So, from my side this bug can be closed. Thanks for your help!

Cheers,

Josep M. Perez



On 22/05/18 12:04, Simon McVittie wrote:
> On Tue, 22 May 2018 at 11:18:04 +0200, Josep M. Perez wrote:
>> So, I opened dconf-editor and saw that for some reason
>> /org/gnome/shell/disable-extension-version-validation was active, and that
>> was the default value.
> That is correct. By default extensions don't need to declare compatibility
> with specific GNOME Shell versions since 3.21.92 (in earlier versions, the
> Shell interfaces that extensions use changed more frequently).
>
> If that option had any effect, it would be to disable some of your
> extensions. Extensions that say they are compatible with Shell 3.28 should
> never be affected by it. gpaste and "removable drive menu" seem to both
> be from packages that are updated in sync with the rest of GNOME 3.28,
> so I would expect that they declare compatibility with Shell 3.28 and are
> unaffected by extension version validation.
>
>> Last week, it seemed that disabling the "gpaste" extension solved it. However,
>> today I updated, rebooted, and it seems that now that it still happens until I
>> disable the "removable drive menu" extension.
> ...
>> I have set it to false, emptied the contents of
>> /org/gnome/shell/enabled-extensions, and enabled only gpaste and "removable
>> drive menu" through the "tweaks" application. After this, I can lock the
>> screen with no trouble.
> That sounds like it might be an intermittent bug that doesn't necessarily
> depend on the enabled state of those extensions, unfortunately.
>
>> ii  gnome-shell-extensions 3.28.1-1
>> all          Extensions to extend functionality of GNOME Shell
> FYI, this is the package containing the "removable drive menu" extension.
>
>      smcv


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