Comment 0 for bug 1948893

3.38.4.1

What you expected to happen:
gnome-shell application grid to behave normally

What actually happened:
Upon clicking the show applications button once and reopening overview, applications do not show up. When clicking the button twice to open/close the application view, the grid will briefly flash on second click, and after closing and reopening overview the grid will persist in the main overview behind open windows.

This bug seems to be triggered by extensions such as dash-to-panel when configuring settings to use the default gnome-dash/applications button and disabling the button on the panel. Because this bug is very similar to https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-shell/+bug/1922353 which was also triggered by the same extension for many users, it seems appropriate to report here.

I've recreated this bug on ubuntu 21.04 with vanilla gnome as well as pop_os 21.04 and ubuntu 21.04 with default extensions disabled.

Error log:
value "nan" of type 'gfloat' is invalid or out of range for property 'translation-x' of type 'gfloat'
value "nan" of type 'gfloat' is invalid or out of range for property 'translation-y' of type 'gfloat'
value "-nan" of type 'gdouble' is invalid or out of range for property 'value' of type 'gdouble'

Steps to recreate:
1) Disable any built-in extensions that modify gnome-shell
2) Install and enable dash-to-panel, toggle 'show applications button' off and 'activities button' on and enable 'keep original gnome-shell dash'
3) Restart shell and click show applications button on the dash

screenshot of log:
https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/89889704/134977896-7a4a2457-e4c4-4d30-9eb7-8eac60e4d524.png

video of bug:
https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/89889704/134979056-653976d3-ec83-44c5-948a-4ee8baac2fa7.mp4

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 21.04
Package: gnome-shell 3.38.4-1ubuntu3~21.04.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.11.0-38.42-generic 5.11.22
Uname: Linux 5.11.0-38-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu65.4
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: pass
CurrentDesktop: GNOME
Date: Tue Oct 26 19:10:25 2021
DisplayManager: gdm3
InstallationDate: Installed on 2021-10-26 (0 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 21.04 "Hirsute Hippo" - Release amd64 (20210420)
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm-256color
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
RelatedPackageVersions: mutter-common 3.38.4-1ubuntu2
SourcePackage: gnome-shell
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)