gnome-shell crashed with signal 5: Settings schema 'org.gnome.mutter.wayland' does not contain a key named 'xwayland-allow-byte-swapped-clients'

[Daniel van Vugt]

Feb 21 21:39:12 autopkgtest gnome-shell[17945]: Settings schema 'org.gnome.mutter.wayland' does not contain a key named 'xwayland-allow-byte-swapped-clients'
Feb 21 21:39:12 autopkgtest gnome-session-binary[17908]: WARNING: Application 'org.gnome.Shell.desktop' killed by signal 5
Feb 21 21:39:12 autopkgtest gnome-shell[17959]: Settings schema 'org.gnome.mutter.wayland' does not contain a key named 'xwayland-allow-byte-swapped-clients'
Feb 21 21:39:12 autopkgtest gnome-session-binary[17908]: WARNING: Application 'org.gnome.Shell.desktop' killed by signal 5

https://errors.ubuntu.com/problem/bf714caff944bed915a3c4321664107c65547d1f
https://errors.ubuntu.com/problem/db8f7e3dfc79e658b9b2aa8c596b014ce4b9f217
https://errors.ubuntu.com/oops/af2e99fc-d101-11ee-8a58-fa163ec8ca8c

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

Fix released in mutter 45.0.

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

That's weird. The crash came from a system that already had mutter 45 in the process of upgrading (bug 2054319). Given the fix already existed in the new binary, I'm not sure what we could do to stop the old binary from crashing. Maybe more gentle upgrades somehow?

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

Also the missing key was introduced in mutter-common version 44.0. It sounds like it must have been installed at the time of the crash, but not compiled yet?

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

This appears to be the most common (and currently only) recurring gnome-shell crash being reported in Noble:

https://errors.ubuntu.com/problem/bf714caff944bed915a3c4321664107c65547d1f

Although you have to dig into the individual reports and check their journals to confirm they're bug 2054761.

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

Maybe fixing bug 2060423 would also help here?

[Ubuntu QA Website (ubuntuqa)]

This bug has been reported on the Ubuntu ISO testing tracker.

A list of all reports related to this bug can be found here:
http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/reports/bugs/2054761

[Skia (hyask)]

With the latest upload of mutter (46.0-1ubuntu7), we still have `gnome-shell` crashes during Jammy to Noble upgrades.

Here is a recent oops: https://errors.ubuntu.com/oops/0ec860d4-fd60-11ee-9dae-fa163ec44ecd
Let me know if you need anything else.