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  1. Bug #2067374
  2. Comment #3

Comment 3 for bug 2067374

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Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt) wrote : Re: gnome-shell very high cpu usage

Oh actually it sounds like the problem might be that hardware acceleration isn't working:

[ 35.899866] tuxedo org.gnome.Shell.desktop[3332]: error: Kernel is too old (4.16+ required) or unusable for Iris.
[ 35.899866] tuxedo org.gnome.Shell.desktop[3332]: Check your dmesg logs for loading failures.
[ 36.085749] tuxedo org.gnome.Shell.desktop[3332]: error: Kernel is too old (4.16+ required) or unusable for Iris.
[ 36.085749] tuxedo org.gnome.Shell.desktop[3332]: Check your dmesg logs for loading failures.
[ 36.085749] tuxedo org.gnome.Shell.desktop[3332]: libEGL warning: egl: failed to create dri2 screen
[ 36.088736] tuxedo org.gnome.Shell.desktop[3332]: error: Kernel is too old (4.16+ required) or unusable for Iris.
[ 36.088736] tuxedo org.gnome.Shell.desktop[3332]: Check your dmesg logs for loading failures.
[ 36.088736] tuxedo org.gnome.Shell.desktop[3332]: libEGL warning: egl: failed to create dri2 screen
[ 36.091930] tuxedo org.gnome.Shell.desktop[3332]: error: Kernel is too old (4.16+ required) or unusable for Iris.
[ 36.091930] tuxedo org.gnome.Shell.desktop[3332]: Check your dmesg logs for loading failures.
[ 36.091930] tuxedo org.gnome.Shell.desktop[3332]: libEGL warning: egl: failed to create dri2 screen

So either something went wrong with the dist upgrade or the Nvidia drivers (which are not present now) somehow broke the Intel drivers.