Bug#1121170: GNOME Shell 48.4 crashes with OBS recording

[Simon McVittie]

Control: reassign -1 libmutter-16-0 48.4-2
Control: affects -1 + gnome-shell
Control: forwarded -1 https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/issues/4251

On Sat, 22 Nov 2025 at 09:41:04 +0000, dartvader316 Dev mail wrote:
>From GNOME gitlab bug tracker this is known issue which is fixed in GNOME 48.5+:
>https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/issues/8659
>This looks like the patch for fix:
>https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/merge_requests/4577
>
>Can GNOME shell in debian stable updated to 48.5 or fix patch be ported?

If the solution is a patch to mutter, then updating GNOME Shell can't 
fix it, but updating mutter to 48.5 or 48.6 would. We have a backport of 
mutter 48.6 and gnome-shell 48.6 in progress for the next point release, 
but it hasn't been tested yet. At some point I'll try to upload test 
packages that you can try.

A workaround would be to do shorter screencast sessions, and log out / 
log back in between each one.

     smcv