Bug#922218: gnome-shell fills up logs with an stack trace

Sergio Villar svillar at igalia.com
Wed Feb 13 10:51:08 GMT 2019


Package: gnome-shell
Version: 3.30.1-2
Severity: critical
Justification: breaks the whole system

Dear Maintainer,

gnome-shell is making my system unusable by completelly filling up the /var partition due to the errors it spits into several log files like syslog, 
user.log and messages. All three of them are Gigabytes of size. The issue that is reported by gnome-shell (hundreds of times per second!) is the 
following:

Feb 12 14:54:25 dori gnome-shell[5179]: Object St.Icon (0x556220576a40), has been already finalized. Impossible to set any property to it.
Feb 12 14:54:25 dori org.gnome.Shell.desktop[5179]: == Stack trace for context 0x55621f7d6340 ==
Feb 12 14:54:25 dori org.gnome.Shell.desktop[5179]: #0 0x55621fc4b2b0 i   resource:///org/gnome/shell/ui/osdWindow.js:223 (0x7f055c6c9b38 @ 231)
Feb 12 14:54:25 dori org.gnome.Shell.desktop[5179]: #1 0x7ffc616fdf90 I   resource:///org/gnome/gjs/modules/_legacy.js:82 (0x7f057c0b5de0 @ 71)
Feb 12 14:54:25 dori org.gnome.Shell.desktop[5179]: #2 0x7ffc616fe710 b   self-hosted:916 (0x7f057c0f1230 @ 367)
Feb 12 14:54:25 dori org.gnome.Shell.desktop[5179]: #3 0x7ffc616fe800 b   resource:///org/gnome/gjs/modules/signals.js:128 (0x7f057c0d2230 @ 386)
Feb 12 14:54:25 dori org.gnome.Shell.desktop[5179]: #4 0x55621fc4b228 i   resource:///org/gnome/shell/ui/layout.js:530 (0x7f055c603230 @ 127)
Feb 12 14:54:25 dori org.gnome.Shell.desktop[5179]: #5 0x55621fc4b180 i   resource:///org/gnome/gjs/modules/_legacy.js:82 (0x7f057c0b5de0 @ 71)
Feb 12 14:54:25 dori org.gnome.Shell.desktop[5179]: #6 0x55621fc4b0c0 i   self-hosted:916 (0x7f057c0f1230 @ 367)

I'm setting a critical severity because as you might imagine, once the var partition is full several unrelated software starts to break. Also for 
non technical users rebooting wouldn't be a solution as the logs will persist.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (800, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/40 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=gl_ES.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=gl_ES.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=gl_ES.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages gnome-shell depends on:
ii  dconf-gsettings-backend [gsettings-backend]  0.30.1-2
ii  evolution-data-server                        3.30.4-1
ii  gir1.2-accountsservice-1.0                   0.6.45-1
ii  gir1.2-atspi-2.0                             2.30.0-5
ii  gir1.2-freedesktop                           1.58.3-2
ii  gir1.2-gcr-3                                 3.28.0-4
ii  gir1.2-gdesktopenums-3.0                     3.28.1-1
ii  gir1.2-gdm-1.0                               3.30.1-1
ii  gir1.2-geoclue-2.0                           2.5.2-1
ii  gir1.2-glib-2.0                              1.58.3-2
ii  gir1.2-gnomebluetooth-1.0                    3.28.2-3
ii  gir1.2-gnomedesktop-3.0                      3.30.2-4
ii  gir1.2-gtk-3.0                               3.24.3-1
ii  gir1.2-gweather-3.0                          3.28.2-2
ii  gir1.2-ibus-1.0                              1.5.19-1
ii  gir1.2-mutter-3                              3.30.2-4
ii  gir1.2-nm-1.0                                1.14.4-4
ii  gir1.2-nma-1.0                               1.8.18-2
ii  gir1.2-pango-1.0                             1.42.4-6
ii  gir1.2-polkit-1.0                            0.105-25
ii  gir1.2-rsvg-2.0                              2.44.10-1
ii  gir1.2-soup-2.4                              2.64.2-2
ii  gir1.2-upowerglib-1.0                        0.99.9-2
ii  gjs                                          1.52.4-1
ii  gnome-backgrounds                            3.30.0-1
ii  gnome-settings-daemon                        3.30.2-1
ii  gnome-shell-common                           3.30.1-2
ii  gsettings-desktop-schemas                    3.28.1-1
ii  libatk-bridge2.0-0                           2.30.0-2
ii  libatk1.0-0                                  2.30.0-2
ii  libc6                                        2.28-5
ii  libcairo2                                    1.16.0-2
ii  libcanberra-gtk3-0                           0.30-7
ii  libcanberra0                                 0.30-7
ii  libcroco3                                    0.6.12-3
ii  libecal-1.2-19                               3.30.4-1
ii  libedataserver-1.2-23                        3.30.4-1
ii  libgcr-base-3-1                              3.28.0-4
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0                           2.38.0+dfsg-7
ii  libgirepository-1.0-1                        1.58.3-2
ii  libgjs0g                                     1.52.4-1
ii  libglib2.0-0                                 2.58.2-3
ii  libglib2.0-bin                               2.58.2-3
ii  libgstreamer1.0-0                            1.14.4-1
ii  libgtk-3-0                                   3.24.3-1
ii  libical3                                     3.0.4-3
ii  libjson-glib-1.0-0                           1.4.4-2
ii  libmutter-3-0                                3.30.2-4
ii  libnm0                                       1.14.4-4
ii  libpango-1.0-0                               1.42.4-6
ii  libpangocairo-1.0-0                          1.42.4-6
ii  libpolkit-agent-1-0                          0.105-25
ii  libpolkit-gobject-1-0                        0.105-25
ii  libpulse-mainloop-glib0                      12.2-3
ii  libpulse0                                    12.2-3
ii  libsecret-1-0                                0.18.7-1
ii  libstartup-notification0                     0.12-6
ii  libsystemd0                                  240-4
ii  libx11-6                                     2:1.6.7-1
ii  libxfixes3                                   1:5.0.3-1
ii  mutter                                       3.30.2-4
ii  python3                                      3.7.1-3

Versions of packages gnome-shell recommends:
ii  bolt                  0.7-2
ii  chrome-gnome-shell    10.1-4
ii  gdm3                  3.30.1-1
ii  gkbd-capplet          3.26.0-5
ii  gnome-control-center  1:3.30.2-3
ii  gnome-user-docs       3.30.2-1
ii  iio-sensor-proxy      2.4-2
ii  switcheroo-control    1.2-2
ii  unzip                 6.0-21

Versions of packages gnome-shell suggests:
ii  gir1.2-telepathyglib-0.12   0.24.1-2
ii  gir1.2-telepathylogger-0.2  0.8.2-3

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