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

[Simon McVittie]

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On Fri, 18 May 2018 at 15:21:57 +0200, Josep M. Perez wrote:
> gnome-shell crashes when I press meta+L to lock the session. After the third
> failed attempt, it crashes and also suspends the computer.

How reproducible is this? If you reboot your computer and try repeatedly
locking your screen, does the same thing happen again?

Is there anything that looks relevant in the systemd journal or syslog
at around the time of the crash?

Did you previously run a version of gnome-shell that did not have this bug?
If you did, what packages did you upgrade around the time it started
happening? (/var/log/apt/history.log* might be useful)

Do you have any GNOME Shell extensions enabled?

I notice that the backtrace you provided involves libnm, the NetworkManager
client library. Is there anything unusual about your networking that might
explain why you see this crash when other people don't?

I uploaded new versions of gnome-shell, mutter and gjs earlier today
(gnome-shell 3.28.2, mutter 3.28.2 and gjs 1.52.3-2). Please could you
try with those when they become available, and report back with whether
this bug is still visible in those versions?

Thanks,
    smcv