<div dir="ltr">Package: gnome-shell<br>Version: 3.26.1-3<br>Severity: normal<br><br>Dear Maintainer,<br><br>with the last gnome-shell upgrade I have what seem random X crash and then appear the GDM interface redy for login. This cause the loss of all data I was working on and I haven't save.<br><br>I have found that the memory used by gnome-shell and firefox-esr increase until there is buffer free and where there is no more Linux kill all X processes.<br><br>I used the command<br>$ ps -eo pmem,pcpu,rss,vsize,args --sort=-%mem | head -n 15<br><br>to see what processes use more memory and see the memory usage increase during time, and "free" command to see how much buffer free there are.<br><br>Now with wayland you cannot anymore restart gnome-shell (Alt-F2 + r) and so you cannot solve the problem with a workaround. I think that as an extreme workaround you can logout and then login, but I don't have try it.<br><br>I have installed the following gnome extensions:<br>* Application menu<br>* Openweather<br>* Places status indicator<br>* Random walls<br>* Removable driver menu<br>* Timer<br><br>I have make some tests on another machine with Debian testing and gnome-shell not upgraded and these problems are not present.<br><br>Ciao<br>Davide<br><br>-- System Information:<br>Debian Release: buster/sid<br>  APT prefers testing<br>  APT policy: (500, 'testing')<br>Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)<br>Foreign Architectures: i386<br><br>Kernel: Linux 4.13.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)<br>Locale: LANG=it_IT.utf8, LC_CTYPE=it_IT.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=it_IT.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)<br>Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash<br>Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)<br><br>Versions of packages gnome-shell depends on:<br>ii  caribou                                      0.4.21-2<br>ii  dconf-gsettings-backend [gsettings-backend]  0.26.1-1<br>ii  evolution-data-server                        3.26.2.1-1<br>ii  gir1.2-accountsservice-1.0                   0.6.45-1<br>ii  gir1.2-atspi-2.0                             2.26.0-2<br>ii  gir1.2-caribou-1.0                           0.4.21-2<br>ii  gir1.2-freedesktop                           1.54.1-2<br>ii  gir1.2-gcr-3                                 3.20.0-5.1<br>ii  gir1.2-gdesktopenums-3.0                     3.24.1-1<br>ii  gir1.2-gdm-1.0                               3.26.1-3<br>ii  gir1.2-geoclue-2.0                           2.4.7-1<br>ii  gir1.2-glib-2.0                              1.54.1-2<br>ii  gir1.2-gnomebluetooth-1.0                    3.26.1-1<br>ii  gir1.2-gnomedesktop-3.0                      3.26.2-1<br>ii  gir1.2-gtk-3.0                               3.22.24-3<br>ii  gir1.2-gweather-3.0                          3.26.0-1<br>ii  gir1.2-ibus-1.0                              1.5.14-3<br>ii  gir1.2-mutter-1                              3.26.1-6<br>ii  gir1.2-networkmanager-1.0                    1.8.4-4<br>ii  gir1.2-nmgtk-1.0                             1.8.4-1<br>ii  gir1.2-pango-1.0                             1.40.12-1<br>ii  gir1.2-polkit-1.0                            0.105-18<br>ii  gir1.2-rsvg-2.0                              2.40.18-2<br>ii  gir1.2-soup-2.4                              2.60.2-1<br>ii  gir1.2-upowerglib-1.0                        0.99.6-1<br>ii  gjs                                          1.50.1-2<br>ii  gnome-backgrounds                            3.26.2-1<br>ii  gnome-settings-daemon                        3.26.2-1<br>ii  gnome-shell-common                           3.26.1-3<br>ii  gsettings-desktop-schemas                    3.24.1-1<br>ii  libasound2                                   1.1.3-5<br>ii  libatk-bridge2.0-0                           2.26.0-1<br>ii  libatk1.0-0                                  2.26.0-2<br>ii  libc6                                        2.24-17<br>ii  libcairo2                                    1.15.8-2<br>ii  libcanberra-gtk3-0                           0.30-4<br>ii  libcanberra0                                 0.30-4<br>ii  libcroco3                                    0.6.12-1<br>ii  libdbus-glib-1-2                             0.108-2<br>ii  libecal-1.2-19                               3.26.2.1-1<br>ii  libedataserver-1.2-22                        3.26.2.1-1<br>ii  libgcr-base-3-1                              3.20.0-5.1<br>ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0                           2.36.11-1<br>ii  libgirepository-1.0-1                        1.54.1-2<br>ii  libgjs0g [libgjs0-libmozjs-52-0]             1.50.1-2<br>ii  libglib2.0-0                                 2.54.1-1<br>ii  libglib2.0-bin                               2.54.1-1<br>ii  libgstreamer1.0-0                            1.12.3-1<br>ii  libgtk-3-0                                   3.22.24-3<br>ii  libical2                                     2.0.0-0.5+b1<br>ii  libjson-glib-1.0-0                           1.2.8-1<br>ii  libmutter-1-0                                3.26.1-6<br>ii  libnm-glib4                                  1.8.4-4<br>ii  libnm-util2                                  1.8.4-4<br>ii  libpango-1.0-0                               1.40.12-1<br>ii  libpangocairo-1.0-0                          1.40.12-1<br>ii  libpolkit-agent-1-0                          0.105-18<br>ii  libpolkit-gobject-1-0                        0.105-18<br>ii  libpulse-mainloop-glib0                      11.1-1<br>ii  libpulse0                                    11.1-1<br>ii  libsecret-1-0                                0.18.5-4<br>ii  libstartup-notification0                     0.12-4+b2<br>ii  libsystemd0                                  235-2<br>ii  libx11-6                                     2:1.6.4-3<br>ii  libxfixes3                                   1:5.0.3-1<br>ii  mutter                                       3.26.1-6<br>ii  python3                                      3.6.3-2<br><br>Versions of packages gnome-shell recommends:<br>ii  chrome-gnome-shell    9-1<br>ii  gdm3                  3.26.1-3<br>ii  gkbd-capplet          3.26.0-2<br>ii  gnome-control-center  1:3.26.1-2<br>ii  gnome-user-docs       3.26.2-1<br>ii  iio-sensor-proxy      2.2-1<br>ii  switcheroo-control    1.1-1<br>ii  unzip                 6.0-21<br><br>Versions of packages gnome-shell suggests:<br>ii  gir1.2-telepathyglib-0.12   0.24.1-1.1<br>ii  gir1.2-telepathylogger-0.2  0.8.2-2<br><br>-- no debconf information<br></div>