Comment 19 for bug 1632322

It's a really stupid bug, with the proprietary nvidia driver Libmutter crashes. But I can still log into gnome-shell by pressing Ctrl+Alt+F2 logging in via tty2 and then issuing startx. Weirdly everything works from there.

Excerpt of syslog around the error:

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Dec 16 21:24:03 jupiter /usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-x-session[1444]: /sbin/prime-offload: 30: /sbin/prime-offload: cannot create /var/log/prime-offload.log: Permission denied
Dec 16 21:24:03 jupiter systemd[1439]: Started D-Bus User Message Bus.
Dec 16 21:24:03 jupiter dbus-daemon[1462]: Successfully activated service 'org.freedesktop.systemd1'
Dec 16 21:24:03 jupiter dbus-daemon[1462]: Activating via systemd: service name='org.a11y.Bus' unit='at-spi-dbus-bus.service'
Dec 16 21:24:03 jupiter systemd[1439]: Starting Accessibility services bus...
Dec 16 21:24:03 jupiter dbus-daemon[1462]: Successfully activated service 'org.a11y.Bus'
Dec 16 21:24:03 jupiter systemd[1439]: Started Accessibility services bus.
Dec 16 21:24:03 jupiter at-spi-bus-launcher[1464]: Activating service name='org.a11y.atspi.Registry'
Dec 16 21:24:03 jupiter at-spi-bus-launcher[1464]: Successfully activated service 'org.a11y.atspi.Registry'
Dec 16 21:24:03 jupiter org.a11y.atspi.Registry[1469]: SpiRegistry daemon is running with well-known name - org.a11y.atspi.Registry
Dec 16 21:24:03 jupiter at-spi-bus-laun[1464]: Failed to register client: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.gnome.SessionManager was not provided by any .service files
Dec 16 21:24:03 jupiter kernel: [ 23.913800] gnome-shell[1480]: segfault at 14 ip 00007fb0f4ebb725 sp 00007ffefa786310 error 4 in libmutter.so.0.0.0[7fb0f4e7f000+ff000]
Dec 16 21:24:03 jupiter gnome-session[1458]: gnome-session-binary[1458]: WARNING: Application 'org.gnome.Shell.desktop' killed by signal 11
Dec 16 21:24:03 jupiter gnome-session-binary[1458]: WARNING: Application 'org.gnome.Shell.desktop' killed by signal 11
Dec 16 21:24:04 jupiter kernel: [ 24.162037] gnome-shell[1490]: segfault at 14 ip 00007fe700928725 sp 00007fff61a27210 error 4 in libmutter.so.0.0.0[7fe7008ec000+ff000]
Dec 16 21:24:04 jupiter gnome-session-binary[1458]: WARNING: Application 'org.gnome.Shell.desktop' killed by signal 11
Dec 16 21:24:04 jupiter gnome-session[1458]: gnome-session-binary[1458]: WARNING: Application 'org.gnome.Shell.desktop' killed by signal 11
Dec 16 21:24:04 jupiter gnome-session[1458]: gnome-session-binary[1458]: WARNING: App 'org.gnome.Shell.desktop' respawning too quickly
Dec 16 21:24:04 jupiter gnome-session[1458]: gnome-session-binary[1458]: CRITICAL: We failed, but the fail whale is dead. Sorry....
Dec 16 21:24:04 jupiter gnome-session-binary[1458]: Unrecoverable failure in required component org.gnome.Shell.desktop
Dec 16 21:24:04 jupiter gnome-session-binary[1458]: WARNING: App 'org.gnome.Shell.desktop' respawning too quickly
Dec 16 21:24:04 jupiter gnome-session-binary[1458]: CRITICAL: We failed, but the fail whale is dead. Sorry....
Dec 16 21:24:04 jupiter org.a11y.atspi.Registry[1469]: XIO: fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server ":0"
Dec 16 21:24:04 jupiter org.a11y.atspi.Registry[1469]: after 21 requests (21 known processed) with 0 events remaining.
Dec 16 21:24:04 jupiter /usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-x-session[1444]: (**) Option "fd" "25"
Dec 16 21:24:04 jupiter /usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-x-session[1444]: (**) Option "fd" "28"
Dec 16 21:24:04 jupiter /usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-x-session[1444]: (**) Option "fd" "29"
Dec 16 21:24:04 jupiter /usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-x-session[1444]: (**) Option "fd" "30"
Dec 16 21:24:04 jupiter /usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-x-session[1444]: (**) Option "fd" "31"
Dec 16 21:24:04 jupiter /usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-x-session[1444]: (II) UnloadModule: "libinput"
Dec 16 21:24:04 jupiter /usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-x-session[1444]: (II) systemd-logind: releasing fd for 13:66
Dec 16 21:24:04 jupiter /usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-x-session[1444]: (II) UnloadModule: "libinput"
Dec 16 21:24:04 jupiter /usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-x-session[1444]: (II) systemd-logind: releasing fd for 13:76
Dec 16 21:24:04 jupiter /usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-x-session[1444]: (II) UnloadModule: "libinput"
Dec 16 21:24:04 jupiter /usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-x-session[1444]: (II) systemd-logind: releasing fd for 13:67

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