Bug 503080 – gnome-base/gnome-shell-3.10.4 fails to load styles on startup

• Status: RESOLVED TEST-REQUEST
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Jan Vesely 2014-02-28 23:09:03 UTC]

When logging into gnome the gnome shell sometimes looks like the attached screenshots. Using Alt-F2 "r" to restart the shell fixes the corruption.

Reproducible: Always

[Comment 1 Jan Vesely 2014-02-28 23:10:12 UTC]

Created attachment 371456 [details]
Bottom left corner in the activities overlay

[Comment 2 Jan Vesely 2014-02-28 23:10:48 UTC]

Created attachment 371460 [details]
Top centre in the activities overlay

[Comment 3 Jan Vesely 2014-02-28 23:11:27 UTC]

Created attachment 371462 [details]
Top right corner

[Comment 4 Jan Vesely 2014-02-28 23:12:59 UTC]

Created attachment 371464 [details]
Shutdown message window

After pressing ctrl+alt+del, the top right menu is unusable.

[Comment 5 Pacho Ramos 2014-02-28 23:15:19 UTC]

Are you able to reproduce on a newly created user account?

[Comment 6 Jan Vesely 2014-03-01 19:55:18 UTC]

(In reply to Pacho Ramos from comment #5)
> Are you able to reproduce on a newly created user account?

I have been unable reproduce with new user account, reloging between users worked ok even for my regular account.
The corruption usually appears on the first login after startup.
I have been hit by #503082, so it might be a result of fs corruption (but how could restarting shell fix this?).

If I see the corruption again on clean boot, I'll try logging to the new account first to see if it can be reproduced.

[Comment 7 Jan Vesely 2014-03-27 16:05:28 UTC]

I have managed to reproduce this after a shell restart in the middle of the session. (kill -SUGUSR1 $PID_OF_SHELL)
This time it was not fixable by additional shell restarts, however I noticed this in kernel log:

traps: gdbus[5417] trap int3 ip:7f8e223fa779 sp:7f8e1983d940 error:0
gdbus[6052]: segfault at 8 ip 00007f2022705f98 sp 00007f2019b60ae0 error 4 in libglib-2.0.so.0.3800.2[7f20226cc000+126000]

Restarting gnome (systemctl restart gdm) helped.

Is there a daemon that needs to be running for gnome-shell to get proper styles?
I tried diffing the list of processes when this happened just after login but saw no difference in running processes.

I also tried sending SIGSEGV to random dbus related processes run by local user, but I could not reproduce the behavior. either nothing happened or I was logged out immediately after sending the segv signal.

I have no idea how dbus things work, so if you can point me to a process that matches the description I can test whether killing it reproduces the behavior.

[Comment 8 Pacho Ramos 2015-03-28 09:29:49 UTC]

please retry with 3.14.4