Got hit by Wayland's bug

Software PureOS
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Hi, I have Librem 15 laptop, with PureOS 3 alpha installed.

I’ve encountered random Gnome Shell crashes. Unable to pinpoint the cause, I was just a bit frustrated.

Just tonight, Gnome Shell crashed 3 times already :slight_smile:

But this has enabled me to found out the cause, here’s a snippet from the logfile :

Dec 29 23:16:37 HSZ org.gnome.Shell.desktop[1936]: (EE)
Dec 29 23:16:37 HSZ org.gnome.Shell.desktop[1936]: Fatal server error:
Dec 29 23:16:37 HSZ org.gnome.Shell.desktop[1936]: (EE) dup failed: Too many open files
Dec 29 23:16:37 HSZ org.gnome.Shell.desktop[1936]: (EE)
Dec 29 23:16:37 HSZ virtualbox.desktop[2898]: VirtualBox: Fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server :0.

Using these info as keywords, I found several posts about the same problem, pointing to the same bug : https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1373451

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Since I need VirtualBox for my current work, I’ll have to uninstall PureOS 3 for the time being.
Hopefully I’ll be able to use it again later.

For your information.

cheers, HS

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Hi Harry,

Thanks for the bug report!

If this bug is only specific to Wayland, you may just use X with PureOS instead of switching OS. Just select “GNOME on Xorg” when login in.

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Or you can simply install another DE, like Cinnamon.

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Hi, just found another Wayland “bug” - everytime I tried to run gparted as root, I got the following error message :

(gpartedbin:7471): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: :0

This is a showstopper, because gparted simply need root privilege.

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Thankfully there’s a simple workaround, just type this first :

xhost +local:

Now you can run gparted, and any other GUI apps, as root.

(credit to Mike Fleetwood : https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1385556#c3 )

cheers, HS

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Or you can simply install another DE, like Cinnamon.

Truth is, it’s rather hard to live with other DE after Gnome3 + Wayland.

You guys have introduced us to a very beautiful thing indeed.

cheers, HS

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Thanks for reporting, I think we are already on this. In the future, you can report bugs in our tracker: https://tracker.pureos.net