Gnome randomly shuts down due to Xwayland crashing

[Du Hao]

I am running Ubuntu 23.10 which is upgraded from 22.04 LTS. The system sometimes crashes and GNOME is restarted, resulting in the work is lost sometimes.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 23.10
Package: gnome-shell 45.2-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 6.5.0-25.25-generic 6.5.13
Uname: Linux 6.5.0-25-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.27.0-0ubuntu5
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: pass
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Mon Mar 18 16:15:05 2024
DisplayManager: gdm3
InstallationDate: Installed on 2023-11-09 (130 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS "Jammy Jellyfish" - Release amd64 (20230807.2)
RelatedPackageVersions: mutter-common 45.2-0ubuntu3
SourcePackage: gnome-shell
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to mantic on 2023-12-02 (107 days ago)

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 2055176, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

It looks like your system experienced another issue too: sublime_text used over 40GB of RAM today around 4:01pm, before that caused other parts of the system to fail and the kernel stepped in and killed sublime_text.