Bug#1031847: gnome-shell: Gnome crashes when laptop connected to ThinkPad Universal Thunderbolt 4 Dock (40B0), Oh no! Something has gone wrong error appears.

[Simon McVittie]

On Fri, 24 Feb 2023 at 05:50:06 +0100, Kuba wrote:
> Bug is described here: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/issues/6162
> and if I understand correctly, it is diagnosed as some dependency issue.

>From the linked issue report it looks like this is a bug in lcms fixed by
<https://github.com/mm2/Little-CMS/issues/344>, combined with a bug in
colord fixed by <https://github.com/hughsie/colord/pull/146>. There is
probably nothing that can be done about this in gnome-shell (apart from
perhaps turning off colour management, which I don't think anyone wants
to do), but resolving the crash will need coordinated uploads of both
lcms and colord, neither of which is team-maintained.

I'm not going to be able to reproduce this myself, and probably neither are
other GNOME maintainers, because the crash only happens when you have a
Thunderbolt display connected (or perhaps even a specific type of
Thunderbolt display).

    smcv