[Bionic] [wayland] many gnome applications exit or crash when a file is opened from within
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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mutter (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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High
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Unassigned | ||
Bionic |
Fix Released
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High
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Workaround
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From the login screen, click your name, then click the gear button and select Ubuntu. Log in.
Steps to reproduce for Nautilus
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0) From the login screen, click your name, then click the gear button and select Ubuntu on Wayland. Log in.
1) Open nautilus (currently 3.26.2 in bionic)
2) Browse to a location with a textfile or an archive (eg. /home/user/
3) Right click a textfile or an archive (eg. profiles.ini)
4) Choose gedit or File Roller from the list, click ok.
5) Nautilus crashes, gedit or File Roller don't come up
Another observation: This problem is not limited to Nautilus. Thus going back to Nautilus 3.26.0 will not help.
Steps to reproduce for other apps (via opening yelp files)
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1) Open nautilus
2) click on the nautilus entry in the top bar (right of "Activities").
3) Select "Help"
4) nautilus exits, yelp doesn't come up
5) open polari
6) click on the "Polari" entry in the top bar (right of "Acitivies").
7) Select "Help"
8) See polari crash
9) Open gnome-control-
10) See that gnome-control-
Affected applications
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Not all applications crash. Most applications don't offer the possibility to open yelp from the top bar. So those are not mentioned in the list below:
* Deja Dup, Gnome control center, Nautilus, Polari, Gnome-Disks, Gnome-Photos, gEdit and gnome-logs will crash
* Gnome Terminal, Rhythmbox, Gnome-Sudoku, Cheese, Gthumb, Gnome-Mahjongg, Gnome-Mines, Simple-Scan, Gnome-Calculator and Gnome-Clocks, File Roller, gnome-screenshot, baobab, gnome-system-
Other Info
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Opening a file from Nautilus with LibreOffice doesn't crash Nautilus.
Conclusion
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Is that a Mutter or Gnome-shell regression? Is it going to be fixed upstream? It seems that some (XDG?-) handover between some gnome apps doesn't work as expected and both apps have to exit.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
Package: gedit 3.27.92-1ubuntu1
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 4.15.0-10-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.8-0ubuntu10
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu-
Date: Wed Mar 7 22:13:00 2018
InstallationDate: Installed on 2018-02-23 (12 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Alpha amd64 (20180214)
SourcePackage: gedit
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
description: | updated |
description: | updated |
summary: |
- [Bionic] Nautilus 3.27.92 crashes when a file is opened with gedit by - right-clicking it + [Bionic] Nautilus crashes when a file is opened with gedit |
description: | updated |
summary: |
- [Bionic] [wayland] Nautilus crashes when a file is opened with gedit + [Bionic] [wayland] Nautilus crashes when a file is opened |
description: | updated |
description: | updated |
description: | updated |
description: | updated |
description: | updated |
tags: | removed: rls-bb-incoming |
Changed in mutter (Ubuntu Bionic): | |
status: | In Progress → Fix Committed |
I cannot duplicate this bug with the X session, only with Wayland.