bug#71556: GNOME Konsol crashes

[Maxim Cournoyer]

Hi Simon,

Simon Josefsson <simon@josefsson.org> writes:

>> 21 juni 2024 kl. 06:32 skrev Liliana Marie Prikler 
>> <liliana.prikler@gmail.com>:
>> 
>> Am Freitag, dem 14.06.2024 um 18:34 +0200 schrieb Simon Josefsson:
>>> Hi.
>>> 
>>> GNOME Konsol has crashed for me, bringing down all 10+ windows I had
>>> open (and plenty of ongoing work halted...).  I've now seen this
>>> twice, so I suppose it counts as reproducible, even though I don't
>>> know how to trigger it.  I recall that it happened when I used the
>>> mouse to maybe resize windows or switch workspace somehow.
>>> 
>>> This is guix v1.3.0-60008-g7e00fb9f31 with a fairly normal system
>>> configuration [1] on a fairly ordinary amd64 desktop (MSI Z790P).
>>> Syslog has these two crashes:
>> … and a fairly normal GPU?
>
> Built-in UHD 770 in the Intel 14900K CPU (no overclocking). I am using 
> Dasharo system firmware if that makes a difference.
>
> I’ve used this system extensively and think some recent update may have 
> introduced it as I started seeing it only recently. Hard to tell though since 
> it only happened after 4+ hours of interactive work each time.
>
>> The crash indicates some driver issue, probably in Mesa.  Since GNOME
>> is increasingly hardware accelerated, you tend to notice them in a lot
>> of places.  You can twiddle the GSK_RENDERER environment variable to
>> something less buggy, potentially at the cost of performance.
>> Particularly the cairo one ought to do slow, but correct CPU rendering.
>
> Ah this makes sense. I will try and see if I notice it again. It hasn’t 
> happened for any other application.

Are you still having problems with GNOME Console (you do mean 'Console',
the default console application in GNOME (the one whose executable is
'kgx') ?)

-- 
Thanks,
Maxim