Comment 52 for bug 1505409

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Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt) wrote :

Happy 2018.

Now we've got Xwayland leaving core files when it crashes (fixed in mutter 3.26.2), we still see very few Xwayland crashes. Too few to account for most (90%+) of the instances of this bug...

 https://errors.ubuntu.com/?package=xwayland&period=month
 https://errors.ubuntu.com/?package=gnome-shell&period=month

So the most likely explanation I can think of now is that Xwayland is exiting prematurely, in some way that looks like an unexpected crash to its parent (mutter code in the gnome-shell process). We'll need to look for possible ways Xwayland might exit prematurely without dumping core...