Xwayland leaves no core dump or .crash file when crashing

Bug #1724185 reported by Daniel van Vugt
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Mutter
Fix Released
High
mutter (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
High
Daniel van Vugt
Artful
Fix Released
High
Unassigned

Bug Description

Xwayland (spawned and managed by mutter) leaves no core dump when crashing

This is a big deal because it seems to be the most common trigger for gnome-shell dying:

https://launchpad.net/bugs/1505409
but see also bug https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=759538

So we need to find out exactly why Xwayland is dying so much...

affects: gnome-shell (Ubuntu) → mutter (Ubuntu)
affects: gnome-shell → mutter
Changed in mutter (Ubuntu):
status: New → In Progress
Changed in mutter:
importance: Unknown → High
status: Unknown → Confirmed
summary: - Xwayland leaves no core dump when crashing
+ Xwayland leaves no core dump or .crash file when crashing
Changed in mutter:
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
Revision history for this message
Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt) wrote :

mutter (3.26.2-1) unstable; urgency=medium

  [ Jeremy Bicha ]
  * New upstream release
  * Drop all cherry-picked patches, applied in new release

  [ Simon McVittie ]
  * d/changelog: Retroactively add a reference from 3.26.1-2 to #878353
  * d/p/*.patch: Add metadata to mark remaining patches as Debian-specific

 -- Jeremy Bicha <email address hidden> Sun, 05 Nov 2017 13:03:02 -0500

Changed in mutter (Ubuntu):
status: In Progress → Fix Released
Revision history for this message
Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt) wrote :

Nominated for artful, because it seems it's going to happen with bug 1731053.

Revision history for this message
Jeremy Bícha (jbicha) wrote :

This should be fixed in mutter 3.26.2 which is available in Ubuntu 17.10 "artful".

Changed in mutter (Ubuntu Artful):
status: New → Fix Released
importance: Undecided → High
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