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Bug 1479408 - Overall stability of wayland GNOME session is way worse than GNOME X11 session because WM crashes take down the etnire session
Summary: Overall stability of wayland GNOME session is way worse than GNOME X11 sessio...
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Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 1367666
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: gnome-shell
Version: 27
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
unspecified
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Owen Taylor
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2017-08-08 14:14 UTC by ell1e
Modified: 2017-11-03 19:34 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2017-11-03 19:34:55 UTC
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Description ell1e 2017-08-08 14:14:22 UTC 
Description of problem:
Overall stability of wayland GNOME session is way worse than GNOME X11 session because WM crashes always seem take down the etnire session.

Since this impacts my ability to do work productively (and I imagine for other people as well), I suggest the current marriage of wayland compositor & the whole WM logic, activities overview UI and all the other behavioral things in one process should be reconsidered for GNOME 3 specifically for the sake of better stability.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
3.24.2 (but basically any version back to when the GNOME Wayland session was introduced)

How reproducible:
Sporadical crashes ranging from monthly to more than weekly, varying wildly depending on the exact GNOME version and setup

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Use GNOME Wayland session

Actual results:
When GNOME crashes it brings down the entire session with all the windows and I lose progress. Sadly, this happens often enough to be quite a nuisance

Expected results:
Similar to the X11 session, as much as possible is separated from the compositor / display manager part so that there is a possibility of a crash not bringing down the entire session.

Additional info:
Comment 1 Matthew Miller 2017-11-03 19:34:55 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 1367666 ***
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