Gnome Shell Crash

[euh2]

GNOME Shell 3.28.3

Updated the extension today and it first made my desktop freeze. I reloaded Gnome Shell with the result of a total crash. Restart through Login Manager failed until i "manually" deleted the extension.

[ldreux]

Same result here with Ubuntu 18.04

[tio-trom]

I want to say it works fine with gnome-shell 1:3.30.1-1

[Nicolab]

Same here, the session crash (back to the GDM -> login again and reback to the GDM), since the last update (today for me).
gnome-shell 3.28.3-0ubuntu0.18.04.3

May be related to the last commits:

• 44878d4
• 622d638

An attempt on the fly... may be it need a check before the Regex ? :D

if (!win) {
  return [null];
}

[loczaj]

V23 is crashing on Ubuntu 18.04 (Gnome Shell 3.28.3)

[jonian]

Hi all, please provide the output of:

journalctl /usr/bin/gnome-shell | grep unite

The commits mentioned by @Nicolab fix the issue but I will need the logs to confirm it and release a new version.

[loczaj]

I have downgraded to v22, otherwise I could not use my desktop.
@jonian , you have misspelled the command 'journalctl'
Output of 'journalctl /usr/bin/gnome-shell | grep unite': [unite.txt]
unite.txt

[leoandreotti]

Same here with Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. Had to disable gnome extensions and after that remove unite in order to login to Ubuntu again.

unite.txt

[jonian]

Please test the master branch and confirm if the issue is fixed.
On my tests in gnome-boxes - Ubuntu 18.04, everything is working fine.

[leoandreotti]

It worked here now. Manually updated and it worked. Thank you!

[jonian]

The fix also confirmed on #75. Closing.

[Nicolab]

I confirm that the v24 fixes this bug for me too.
Big thanks @jonian!

[SPYFF]

Is it possible to configure Gnome Shell to stop loading incompatible plugins to avoid crashes like this in the future? Or maybe an unload/safemode mechanism in the plugin?

[mauron85]

I'm also affected by this on Ubuntu 18.04

Deleted extension and I can log into gnome-shell. But reinstalling extension from
https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/1287/unite/ installs version that still crashes.

How can I install v24 or downgrade to v22?

EDIT: Nevermind. I managed to download github release v24 and replace dir content of ~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/unite@hardpixel.eu/

[Nicolab]

@mauron85 I did the same.

[jonian]

@SPYFF Gnome shell is supposed to disable the extensions that have errors by default. Also an unload/safemode mechanism would not have prevented the issue, since this was a gjs error (38fe084).

[jonian]

I have submitted the new version on the Extensions website, but it is still on review (https://extensions.gnome.org/review/8643).

To fix the issue download v24 and replace dir content of ~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/unite@hardpixel.eu/.