Bug#1050512: gnome-shell: Crash when viewing video with mpv

[Simon McVittie]

On Sun, 10 Sep 2023 at 21:54:46 +0200, Marc Glisse wrote:
> On Sun, 10 Sep 2023, Simon McVittie wrote:
> > There is a merge request upstream which *might* fix this. If you are able
> > to rebuild the mutter source package with patches applied, please try
> > applying the attached file "bug1050512-without-xsync.patch" and see whether
> > you can reproduce the crash. If that works, please report back. If not,
> > please revert that change, apply "bug1050512-with-xsync.patch", rebuild
> > and try again.
> 
> The first patch does not work (still crashing). The second one does seem to
> help, that's great! Playing a few videos did not trigger any crash :-)

Thanks, I've forwarded this feedback upstream to
<https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/merge_requests/3160#note_1842341>.
If there's no movement on that MR soon, we can temporarily apply the patch
as Debian-specific.

    smcv