Bug#1034356: gnome-shell: Frozen UI and massive log flodding

[H.-Dirk Schmitt]

Am Donnerstag, dem 22.06.2023 um 18:13 +0100 schrieb Simon McVittie:
> Control: affects -1 gnome-shell-extension-vertical-overview
> 
> On Thu, 13 Apr 2023 at 15:27:33 +0200, H.-Dirk Schmitt wrote:
> > After migration to bookworm on 2 different machines the gnome-shell
> > was frozen in the last week.
> > Via SSH – or switching to the good old console – I was able to see
> > that journald was running with 100% cpu at that time.
> 
> I see from the log messages that you have a non-default theme and
> several
> Shell extensions enabled. Can this be reproduced without any
> extensions?

The machines with problems are administered remotely – so I can't
disable extensions et.al. 

But I found 2 valuable hints that the issue can be mitigated with an
upgrade of gjs to 1.76.1
- https://github.com/pop-os/pop/issues/2893
- https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/issues/1868

Currently a newer version is in 'experimental' . 
I tried a backport, but the tests are failing.

31/71 gjs:JS / Regress                     ERROR            0.50s  
killed by signal 6 SIGABRT
45/71 gjs:JS / Encoding                    FAIL             0.35s  
54/55 subtests passed


May you please cherry pick the fix - or provide a suitable backport
package?

Best Regards,

H.-Dirk Schmitt