gnome-shell crashed with SIGTRAP in g_wakeup_new() from g_main_context_new() from g_dbus_connection_send_message_with_reply_sync() from g_dbus_connection_call_sync_internal() from g_dbus_connection_call_sync() ["Creating pipes for GWakeup: Too many open files\n"]

Bug #1691921 reported by errors.ubuntu.com bug bridge
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This bug affects 6 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
gnome-shell (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
Medium
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Bug Description

The Ubuntu Error Tracker has been receiving reports about a problem regarding gnome-shell. This problem was most recently seen with package version 3.24.1-0ubuntu1, the problem page at https://errors.ubuntu.com/problem/539395873b694446763629ba5197d09cbeb4e8be contains more details, including versions of packages affected, stacktrace or traceback, and individual crash reports.
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NOTE

If you experience this crash it is very likely caused by a gnome-shell extension. The system-monitor extension is one known cause.

Please disable all of your extensions and see if the problem persists.

Tags: focal
Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in gnome-shell (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
summary: - /usr/bin/gnome-
- shell:5:g_wakeup_new:g_main_context_new:g_dbus_connection_send_message_with_reply_sync:g_dbus_connection_call_sync_internal:g_dbus_connection_call_sync
+ gnome-shell crashed with SIGTRAP in g_wakeup_new() from
+ g_main_context_new() from
+ g_dbus_connection_send_message_with_reply_sync() from
+ g_dbus_connection_call_sync_internal() from
+ g_dbus_connection_call_sync()
Changed in gnome-shell (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → High
summary: gnome-shell crashed with SIGTRAP in g_wakeup_new() from
g_main_context_new() from
g_dbus_connection_send_message_with_reply_sync() from
g_dbus_connection_call_sync_internal() from
- g_dbus_connection_call_sync()
+ g_dbus_connection_call_sync() ["Creating pipes for GWakeup: Too many
+ open files\n"]
Revision history for this message
Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt) wrote :

I have a theory we will occasionally hit this crash when the gnome-shell process leaks file descriptors. So it could easily be caused by a buggy extension, and may go away for some time and then return in a later release (as it did stop in 17.10 but now has returned in 18.10).

tags: added: cosmic
description: updated
tags: removed: cosmic raring saucy utopic vivid yakkety zesty
tags: added: disco eoan
removed: trusty
tags: removed: disco
tags: added: focal
removed: eoan
Changed in gnome-shell (Ubuntu):
importance: High → Medium
tags: removed: xenial
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