Bug#1119671: gnome-shell: GNOME Shell freezes on login under Wayland (mutter 48.4, nouveau)
user2025_reporter
noosie at hatmail.ir
Thu Oct 30 09:20:47 GMT 2025
Package: gnome-shell
Version: 48.4-1~deb13u1
Severity: important
Tags: upstream
X-Debbugs-Cc: noosie at hatmail.ir
Dear Maintainer,
What led up to the situation?
Using Debian 13 (bookworm) with GNOME 48.4 on Wayland. GPU is NVIDIA
GeForce 210 (GT218) using the nouveau driver on /dev/dri/card0. GDM is the
display manager.
What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or ineffective)?
Booted normally and attempted to log in via GDM. Entered password and
clicked Sign In.
No deliberate actions to trigger the issue; it happens intermittently (not
reproducible every login).
Ctrl+Alt+F* TTY switching does not respond when the freeze occurs.
What was the outcome of this action?
GNOME Shell sometimes fails to load the desktop after login and the session
becomes unresponsive. Screen appears frozen and no desktop is shown.
What outcome did you expect instead?
GNOME Shell should load the desktop and present the user session after
successful login.
Relevant log excerpt (from journalctl around the failure):
oct 30 02:31:36 pc584 gnome-shell[1097]: Running GNOME Shell (using mutter
48.4) as a Wayland display server
oct 30 02:31:36 pc584 gnome-shell[1097]: Enabling experimental feature 'scale-
monitor-framebuffer'
oct 30 02:31:36 pc584 gnome-shell[1097]: Enabling experimental feature
'xwayland-native-scaling'
oct 30 02:31:39 pc584 gnome-shell[1097]: Thread 'KMS thread' will be using high
priority scheduling
oct 30 02:31:40 pc584 gnome-shell[1097]: Device '/dev/dri/card0' prefers shadow
buffer
oct 30 02:31:40 pc584 gnome-shell[1097]: Added device '/dev/dri/card0'
(nouveau) using non-atomic mode setting.
oct 30 02:31:40 pc584 gnome-shell[1097]: Created gbm renderer for
'/dev/dri/card0'
oct 30 02:31:40 pc584 gnome-shell[1097]: Boot VGA GPU /dev/dri/card0 selected
as primary
oct 30 02:31:41 pc584 gnome-shell[1097]: Using public X11 display :1024, (using
:1025 for managed services)
oct 30 02:31:41 pc584 gnome-shell[1097]: Using Wayland display name 'wayland-0'
oct 30 02:31:45 pc584 gnome-shell[1097]: Unset XDG_SESSION_ID,
getCurrentSessionProxy() called outside a user session. Asking logind directly.
oct 30 02:31:46 pc584 gnome-shell[1097]: Failed to parse saved session file:
Failed to open file
“/var/lib/gdm3/.config/mutter/sessions/10f386d5d678a90be176179593477038300000010740000.ms”:
No such file or d>
oct 30 02:31:46 pc584 gnome-shell[1097]: Error looking up permission:
GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.portal.Error.NotFound: No entry for geolocation
oct 30 02:31:46 pc584 gnome-shell[1097]: Will monitor session c1
oct 30 02:31:50 pc584 gnome-shell[1097]: Registering session with GDM
oct 30 02:32:04 pc584 gnome-shell[1782]: Running GNOME Shell (using mutter
48.4) as a Wayland display server
oct 30 02:32:04 pc584 gnome-shell[1782]: Enabling experimental feature 'scale-
monitor-framebuffer'
oct 30 02:32:04 pc584 gnome-shell[1782]: Enabling experimental feature
'xwayland-native-scaling'
oct 30 02:32:04 pc584 gnome-shell[1782]: Thread 'KMS thread' will be using high
priority scheduling
oct 30 02:32:04 pc584 gnome-shell[1782]: Device '/dev/dri/card0' prefers shadow
buffer
oct 30 02:32:04 pc584 gnome-shell[1782]: Added device '/dev/dri/card0'
(nouveau) using non-atomic mode setting.
oct 30 02:32:04 pc584 gnome-shell[1782]: Created gbm renderer for
'/dev/dri/card0'
oct 30 02:32:04 pc584 gnome-shell[1782]: Boot VGA GPU /dev/dri/card0 selected
as primary
oct 30 02:32:04 pc584 gnome-shell[1782]: Using public X11 display :0, (using :1
for managed services)
oct 30 02:32:04 pc584 gnome-shell[1782]: Using Wayland display name 'wayland-0'
oct 30 02:32:05 pc584 gnome-shell[1782]: Unset XDG_SESSION_ID,
getCurrentSessionProxy() called outside a user session. Asking logind directly.
oct 30 02:32:06 pc584 gnome-shell[1782]: Error loading calendars: Error calling
StartServiceByName for org.gnome.Shell.CalendarServer: Process
org.gnome.Shell.CalendarServer exited with status 1
oct 30 02:32:07 pc584 gnome-shell[1782]: Error looking up permission:
GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.portal.Error.NotFound: No entry for geolocation
oct 30 02:32:07 pc584 gnome-shell[1782]: Will monitor session 2
oct 30 02:32:10 pc584 gnome-shell[1782]: Trying to re-add keybinding
"shortcut".
Additional information:
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce 210 (GT218) — /dev/dri/card0 (nouveau)
Issue is intermittent.
TTY switching unavailable when frozen.
Possible relation to nouveau driver; please advise whether testing with
proprietary NVIDIA driver (nvidia-driver) is helpful.
Attachments provided:
Full journalctl -b output
journalctl -u gdm -u gnome-shell for the affected boot
dmesg and syslog excerpts
gnome-shell backtrace (if available)
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 13.1
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 6.12.48+deb13-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages gnome-shell depends on:
ii dconf-gsettings-backend [gsettings-backend] 0.40.0-5
ii gir1.2-accountsservice-1.0 23.13.9-7
ii gir1.2-adw-1 1.7.6-1~deb13u1
ii gir1.2-atk-1.0 2.56.2-1
ii gir1.2-atspi-2.0 2.56.2-1
ii gir1.2-freedesktop 1.84.0-1
ii gir1.2-gcr-4 4.4.0.1-3
ii gir1.2-gdesktopenums-3.0 48.0-1
ii gir1.2-gdkpixbuf-2.0 2.42.12+dfsg-4
ii gir1.2-gdm-1.0 48.0-2
ii gir1.2-geoclue-2.0 2.7.2-2
ii gir1.2-glib-2.0 2.84.4-3~deb13u1
ii gir1.2-gnomebg-4.0 44.3-3
ii gir1.2-gnomebluetooth-3.0 47.1-1
ii gir1.2-gnomedesktop-4.0 44.3-3
ii gir1.2-graphene-1.0 1.10.8-5
ii gir1.2-gstreamer-1.0 1.26.2-2
ii gir1.2-gtk-4.0 4.18.6+ds-2
ii gir1.2-gweather-4.0 4.4.4-1
ii gir1.2-ibus-1.0 1.5.32-2
ii gir1.2-mutter-16 48.4-2
ii gir1.2-nm-1.0 1.52.1-1
ii gir1.2-nma4-1.0 1.10.6-5
ii gir1.2-pango-1.0 1.56.3-1
ii gir1.2-polkit-1.0 126-2
ii gir1.2-rsvg-2.0 2.60.0+dfsg-1
ii gir1.2-soup-3.0 3.6.5-3
ii gir1.2-upowerglib-1.0 1.90.9-1
ii gjs 1.82.3-1
ii gnome-control-center 1:48.4-1~deb13u1
ii gnome-settings-daemon 48.1-1
ii gnome-shell-common 48.4-1~deb13u1
ii gsettings-desktop-schemas 48.0-1
ii gstreamer1.0-pipewire 1.4.2-1
ii libatk-bridge2.0-0t64 2.56.2-1
ii libatk1.0-0t64 2.56.2-1
ii libc6 2.41-12
ii libcairo2 1.18.4-1+b1
ii libecal-2.0-3 3.56.1-2
ii libedataserver-1.2-27t64 3.56.1-2
ii libgcr-4-4 4.4.0.1-3
ii libgdk-pixbuf-2.0-0 2.42.12+dfsg-4
ii libgirepository-1.0-1 1.84.0-1
ii libgjs0g 1.82.3-1
ii libgles2 1.7.0-1+b2
ii libglib2.0-0t64 2.84.4-3~deb13u1
ii libglib2.0-bin 2.84.4-3~deb13u1
ii libgnome-autoar-0-0 0.4.5-2
ii libgnome-desktop-4-2t64 44.3-3
ii libgraphene-1.0-0 1.10.8-5
ii libgtk-4-1 4.18.6+ds-2
ii libical3t64 3.0.20-1+b1
ii libjson-glib-1.0-0 1.10.6+ds-2
ii libmutter-16-0 48.4-2
ii libnm0 1.52.1-1
ii libpango-1.0-0 1.56.3-1
ii libpipewire-0.3-0t64 1.4.2-1
ii libpolkit-agent-1-0 126-2
ii libpolkit-gobject-1-0 126-2
ii libpulse-mainloop-glib0 17.0+dfsg1-2+b1
ii libpulse0 17.0+dfsg1-2+b1
ii libsecret-1-0 0.21.7-1
ii libsystemd0 257.8-1~deb13u2
ii libx11-6 2:1.8.12-1
ii libxext6 2:1.3.4-1+b3
ii libxfixes3 1:6.0.0-2+b4
ii python3 3.13.5-1
ii tecla 48.0.2-1
Versions of packages gnome-shell recommends:
ii bolt 0.9.8-1
pn evolution-data-server <none>
ii gdm3 48.0-2
ii gnome-browser-connector 42.1-6
ii gnome-menus 3.36.0-3
ii gnome-remote-desktop 48.1-4
pn gnome-user-docs <none>
ii ibus 1.5.32-2
ii iio-sensor-proxy 3.7-3
ii power-profiles-daemon 0.30-1.1
ii switcheroo-control 2.6-3
ii unzip 6.0-29
Versions of packages gnome-shell suggests:
ii gir1.2-malcontent-0 0.13.0-2
pn gir1.2-telepathyglib-0.12 <none>
pn gir1.2-telepathylogger-0.2 <none>
pn gnome-shell-extension-prefs <none>
Versions of packages gnome-session depends on:
ii adwaita-icon-theme 48.1-1
ii fonts-cantarell 0.303.1-4
ii gnome-session-bin 48.0-1
ii gnome-session-common 48.0-1
ii gnome-settings-daemon 48.1-1
ii xdg-desktop-portal-gnome 48.0-2
ii xwayland 2:24.1.6-1
Versions of packages gnome-session recommends:
ii gnome-session-xsession 48.0-1
Versions of packages gnome-session suggests:
ii desktop-base 13.0.4
ii gnome-keyring 48.0-1
Versions of packages gnome-settings-daemon depends on:
ii gnome-settings-daemon-common 48.1-1
ii gsettings-desktop-schemas 48.0-1
ii libasound2t64 1.2.14-1
ii libc6 2.41-12
ii libcairo2 1.18.4-1+b1
ii libcanberra-gtk3-0 0.30-18
ii libcanberra0 0.30-18
ii libcolord2 1.4.7-3
ii libcups2t64 2.4.10-3+deb13u1
ii libfontconfig1 2.15.0-2.3
ii libgck-2-2 4.4.0.1-3
ii libgcr-4-4 4.4.0.1-3
ii libgdk-pixbuf-2.0-0 2.42.12+dfsg-4
ii libgeoclue-2-0 2.7.2-2
ii libgeocode-glib-2-0 3.26.4-1
ii libglib2.0-0t64 2.84.4-3~deb13u1
ii libgnome-desktop-3-20t64 44.3-3
ii libgtk-3-0t64 3.24.49-3
ii libgudev-1.0-0 238-6
ii libgweather-4-0t64 4.4.4-1
ii libmm-glib0 1.24.0-1+deb13u1
ii libnm0 1.52.1-1
ii libnotify4 0.8.6-1
ii libp11-kit0 0.25.5-3
ii libpam-systemd [logind] 257.8-1~deb13u2
ii libpango-1.0-0 1.56.3-1
ii libpangocairo-1.0-0 1.56.3-1
ii libpolkit-gobject-1-0 126-2
ii libpulse-mainloop-glib0 17.0+dfsg1-2+b1
ii libpulse0 17.0+dfsg1-2+b1
ii libspa-0.2-bluetooth 1.4.2-1
ii libsystemd0 257.8-1~deb13u2
ii libupower-glib3 1.90.9-1
ii libwacom9 2.14.0-1
ii libwayland-client0 1.23.1-3
ii libx11-6 2:1.8.12-1
ii libxext6 2:1.3.4-1+b3
ii libxfixes3 1:6.0.0-2+b4
ii libxi6 2:1.8.2-1
ii pipewire-audio 1.4.2-1
Versions of packages gnome-settings-daemon recommends:
ii iio-sensor-proxy 3.7-3
ii pipewire-audio 1.4.2-1
ii pkexec 126-2
ii x11-xserver-utils 7.7+11
Versions of packages gnome-settings-daemon suggests:
pn usbguard <none>
Versions of packages libgjs0g depends on:
pn gir1.2-gio-2.0 <none>
ii gir1.2-girepository-2.0 1.84.0-1
ii gir1.2-glib-2.0 [gir1.2-gobject-2.0] 2.84.4-3~deb13u1
ii libc6 2.41-12
ii libcairo-gobject2 1.18.4-1+b1
ii libcairo2 1.18.4-1+b1
ii libffi8 3.4.8-2
ii libgirepository-1.0-1 [libgirepository-1.0-1-with-libff 1.84.0-1
i8]
ii libglib2.0-0t64 2.84.4-3~deb13u1
ii libmozjs-128-0 128.14.0-1~deb13u1
ii libreadline8t64 8.2-6
ii libstdc++6 14.2.0-19
ii libx11-6 2:1.8.12-1
Versions of packages gnome-shell is related to:
ii libegl-mesa0 [libegl-vendor] 25.0.7-2
ii libgl1-mesa-dri 25.0.7-2
ii libglx-mesa0 [libglx-vendor] 25.0.7-2
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