Comment 8 for bug 1910938

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Davin (platinumlucario) wrote (last edit ):

This bug also occurs when staying in one of the voice channels on Discord for prolonged periods of time.

There is something interesting I've noticed about this bug though, it only occurs on X11 Display Server, it never occurred when I used the Wayland Display Server. So maybe this bug could also be a bug in the X11 Display Server?

I would also recommend testing this bug in different Desktop Environments as well, just to be sure if this is just gnome-shell 3.x and it's forked DEs (such as Cinnamon), or if it's actually the X11 Display Server itself.

Also, logging out of the session can fix the issue temporarily (until the steps are followed to reproduce the bug again).

I have also reported the bug in [here](https://github.com/linuxmint/cinnamon/issues/3442#issuecomment-997984435) and [here](https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/issues/4889)

OS Information:
Linux Kernel version: 5.4.0-91-generic
Distribution release: Ubuntu 20.04
Distribution version: 20.04.3 LTS

DE Information:
GNOME version: 3
GNOME Shell version: 3.36.9

Display Server Information:
Display Server: X11
Display Server Version: X.Org 1.20.11

Display Manager Information:
Display Manager: gdm3

Processor Information:
Hardware: Intel(R) Core(TM) i3-6100 CPU @3.70GHz
Cores: 2
Threads: 4

Video Card Information:
Hardware: NVIDIA Corporation: GM206 [GeForce GTX 950]
Driver: nvidia-driver-470 (proprietary, tested)

Here's one of the best ways to reproduce this issue:
1. Open Discord
2. Enter into any voice channel on Discord and just stay there for a day, it may range from 30 minutes to 24 hours for it to occur.

Expected results:
The text shouldn't vanish from the desktop environment and it shouldn't cause any graphical issues. Instead, if anything stops working, it should reload! And the Settings app should open without crashing.

Actual results:
The text vanishes from the desktop environment and/or other graphical errors occur, and the GNOME settings app crashes upon attempting to open.

Here's the screenshots (copied from Github):
![Screenshot from 2021-12-20 23-53-28](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/1906189/146784524-df557a28-cf10-4b17-b71a-903ba0eb8416.png)
![Screenshot from 2021-12-20 23-56-57](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/1906189/146784538-bb48bf2f-218a-406b-a3f0-58b913b6491e.png)
![Screenshot from 2021-12-20 23-57-09](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/1906189/146784547-1cc8d322-672e-474d-b9a4-14ce6b85a1e5.png)