Bug#974987: GNOME Shell screen locking

[Simon McVittie]

Control: reassign 974985 gnome-shell 3.38.1-2

On Tue, 17 Nov 2020 at 16:19:18 +0000, Marco Ambu wrote:
> Note that using Win + L works as expected: it blanks the screen and then shows
> me the screen lock page to go back to the existing session.

Did you intend to send this to #974985 "gnome: logged out after screen
lock", rather than to #974987 "gnome-control-center: blank screen option
in two menu entries"? It looks more appropriate for #974985.

Is #974985 something that happened once but not reliably, or does it happen
every time you let the time-based screen lock happen?

Are you using Wayland or Xorg?

> This is the last message before I stopped doing anything:
> Nov 17 16:06:56 orange gnome-shell[4339]: JS ERROR: Error: Argument width:
> value is out of range for gfloat#012_relayout@/usr/share/gnome-shell/extensions
> /[1]window-list at gnome-shell-extensions.gcampax.github.com/
> workspaceIndicator.js:91:14

Please try disabling all GNOME Shell extensions. If that resolves this,
then it's a bug in one of the extensions, most likely the window list,
and we should reassign #974985 to that package.

Another thing to try would be to upgrade gnome-shell and libmutter to
the versions from experimental, which contain most of the changes that
will be released as 3.38.2 later.

As far as I can tell from your log, either GNOME Shell, Xwayland or
Xorg crashed after this point - although I would have expected more
messages to be logged. Please try looking at the corresponding time in
the systemd journal or /var/log/syslog, which might provide more detail
(not all messages go into /var/log/messages).

    smcv