gnome-shell brings down all running applications when crashing on wayland

Bug #2026630 reported by XA Hydra
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
GNOME Shell
New
Unknown
gnome-shell (Fedora)
Unknown
Unknown
gnome-shell (Ubuntu)
Triaged
Wishlist
Unassigned

Bug Description

If gnome-shell experiences a problem when running in a Wayland session, it will terminate all graphical applications running via that session.

When running via Xorg, this will not occur, with the added feature that gnome-session may also be restarted manually via alt+f2 and 'r'.

This creates a single point of failure within the entire desktop session, and I have personally experienced this and lost work on a clean install with no extra GNOME extensions. Addressing this would contribute greatly to Ubuntu's overall reliability and stability as a desktop OS.

This issue has been raised elsewhere for Fedora at: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1367666

There is an upstream bug filed at: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/issues/5634

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Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt) wrote (last edit ):

I don't expect GNOME to implement this any time soon. In the meantime it's worth noting most people either don't experience regular crashes, or will only experience one recurring crash that causes them the most grief. So please remember to report all crashes you experience by:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Responses#Missing_a_crash_report_or_having_a_.crash_attachment

So that we can fix them properly.

Changed in gnome-shell (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
status: New → Triaged
Changed in gnome-shell:
status: Unknown → New
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