Rolling and Static: Cinnamon Crashes when panel is set to intellihide

[amethystgosling]

Whenever I have used Gecko, I can't get cinnamon crashes to go away. Usually happen when I am opening an app or changing directories in the file manager. In ~/.xsession-errors :

(cinnamon:3494): Clutter-CRITICAL **: 22:12:14.864: clutter_actor_iter_next: assertion 'ri->age == ri->root->priv->age' failed

Please correct me if this error could not be causing this crash and point me on how I can reliably be able to find the specific error causing this crash. For that case here is my xsession-errors: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Pev9c_g3alrFuvnwjWrOLXFbNh5XAXw_/view?usp=sharing. I have tried my oldest and numerous other snapshots. Also has the problem. I have changed quite a few settings and have no applets, desklets or extensions installed.

[geckolinux]

Hi there, I occasionally see Cinnamon crashes as well. I don't think it can be fixed, at least not by me or openSUSE. Please report this to the Cinnamon upstream bug tracker.

[amethystgosling]

Hi there, I occasionally see Cinnamon crashes as well. I don't think it can be fixed, at least not by me or openSUSE. Please report this to the Cinnamon upstream bug tracker.

Are you sure? This might be happening due to user made changes?

[geckolinux]

To test that you can delete or rename your ~/.config/dconf/user file, which will make it use the Cinnamon defaults.

[amethystgosling]

Hi there, I occasionally see Cinnamon crashes as well. I don't think it can be fixed, at least not by me or openSUSE. Please report this to the Cinnamon upstream bug tracker.

Can you please check the Rolling live USB or a installed virtual machine to see if there are any crashes when opening apps when panel is set to intellihide. If so, any idea on what's causing the crashes?

[amethystgosling]

To test that you can delete or rename your ~/.config/dconf/user file, which will make it use the Cinnamon defaults.

Can I recover my configuration afterwards?

[geckolinux]

Can you please check the Rolling live USB or a installed virtual machine to see if there are any crashes when opening apps when panel is set to intellihide. If so, any idea on what's causing the crashes?

Feel free to try that and report back here.

To test that you can delete or rename your ~/.config/dconf/user file, which will make it use the Cinnamon defaults.

Can I recover my configuration afterwards?

Yes, you can save the user file somewhere and then replace it when you're done testing.

[amethystgosling]

To test that you can delete or rename your ~/.config/dconf/user

Has happened 3 times in 5 minutes of testing normally with Cinnamon's defaults unchanged. But when I open an file that I don't have the permissions to read in mousepad (it gives a floating window saying that it cant read the file) and then I switch to any directory in my home twice, it happens immediately almost everytime. This seems to be the error

(cinnamon:1039): Clutter-CRITICAL *: 22:58:47.674: clutter_actor_iter_next: assertion 'ri->age == ri->root->priv->age' failed Exception in thread Thread-2: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib64/python3.8/threading.py", line 932, in _bootstrap_inner self.run() File "/usr/lib64/python3.8/threading.py", line 870, in run self._target(self._args, *self._kwargs) File "/usr/bin/cinnamon-launcher", line 78, in wait_for_process os.execvp(FALLBACK_COMMAND, (FALLBACK_COMMAND,) + FALLBACK_ARGS) File "/usr/lib64/python3.8/os.py", line 568, in execvp _execvpe(file, args) File "/usr/lib64/python3.8/os.py", line 610, in _execvpe raise last_exc File "/usr/lib64/python3.8/os.py", line 601, in _execvpe exec_func(fullname, argrest) FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory None: no process found Cinnamon warning: Failed to load theme "Menta": Failed to find a valid file for theme Menta

[geckolinux]

Maybe you could try switching to the default Cinnamon theme to see if that makes any difference.

[amethystgosling]

Maybe you could try switching to the default Cinnamon theme to see if that makes any difference.

Do you mean Adwaita GTK theme or the Cinnamon Desktop theme?

[geckolinux]

The Cinnamon desktop theme would be the first one to test.

[amethystgosling]

The Cinnamon desktop theme would be the first one to test.

Still having crashes, especially while changing directories in Nemo.

[geckolinux]

Those are just warnings, I don't think they're the cause of the crash.

[amethystgosling]

This seems to the error

(cinnamon:9646): Clutter-CRITICAL : 17:15:45.794: clutter_actor_iter_next: assertion 'ri->age == ri->root->priv->age' failed Cinnamon warning: Log level 16: cinnamon_app_create_icon_texture: MetaWindow 0x55fd0ce52360 provided that does not match App 0x55fd0d42e800 Cinnamon warning: Log level 16: cinnamon_app_create_icon_texture: MetaWindow 0x55fd0ce52690 provided that does not match App 0x55fd0d42e800 Cinnamon warning: Log level 16: cinnamon_app_create_icon_texture: MetaWindow 0x55fd0ce52cf0 provided that does not match App 0x55fd0d42e800 (cinnamon:9646): Clutter-CRITICAL : 17:23:44.262: clutter_actor_iter_next: assertion 'ri->age == ri->root->priv->age' failed (cinnamon:9646): Clutter-CRITICAL : 17:23:57.259: clutter_actor_iter_next: assertion 'ri->age == ri->root->priv->age' failed (cinnamon:9646): Clutter-CRITICAL : 17:23:57.290: clutter_actor_iter_next: assertion 'ri->age == ri->root->priv->age' failed (cinnamon:9646): Clutter-CRITICAL : 17:23:57.348: clutter_actor_iter_next: assertion 'ri->age == ri->root->priv->age' failed (cinnamon:9646): Clutter-CRITICAL : 17:24:56.340: clutter_actor_iter_next: assertion 'ri->age == ri->root->priv->age' failed (cinnamon:9646): Clutter-CRITICAL : 17:26:16.734: clutter_actor_iter_next: assertion 'ri->age == ri->root->priv->age' failed (cinnamon:9646): Clutter-CRITICAL : 17:26:21.738: clutter_actor_iter_next: assertion 'ri->age == ri->root->priv->age' failed (cinnamon:9646): Clutter-CRITICAL *: 17:27:06.575: clutter_actor_iter_next: assertion 'ri->age == ri->root->priv->age' failed Exception in thread Thread-2: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib64/python3.8/threading.py", line 932, in _bootstrap_inner self.run() File "/usr/lib64/python3.8/threading.py", line 870, in run self._target(self._args, *self._kwargs) File "/usr/bin/cinnamon-launcher", line 78, in wait_for_process os.execvp(FALLBACK_COMMAND, (FALLBACK_COMMAND,) + FALLBACK_ARGS) File "/usr/lib64/python3.8/os.py", line 568, in execvp _execvpe(file, args) File "/usr/lib64/python3.8/os.py", line 610, in _execvpe raise last_exc File "/usr/lib64/python3.8/os.py", line 601, in _execvpe exec_func(fullname, argrest) FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory

[geckolinux]

Looks like an upstream Cinnamon bug for sure. GeckoLinux doesn't modify any code or upstream packages.

[amethystgosling]

Can confirm the bug also exists in the Live USB. Interestingly the issue does not happen if Cinnamon is running in Software Rendering Mode. I have submitted this issue on Cinnamon's github page.

[geckolinux]

Ah, that's a very significant finding. So it's probably something related to the graphics drivers. I wonder if this would make any difference? https://github.com/geckolinux/geckolinux-project/issues/392#issuecomment-1134981929

[amethystgosling]

Can you try installing GeckoLinux Rolling on spare hardware to test if the bug is not happening in the Live USB but in a freshly installed system as well? Then set the panel to intellihide or autohide and while it's hidden open nemo and change directories quickly I want to know this because I have made quite a drastic changes to my install like removing packages that I thought were unnecessary. I know that I should not have done that since this might be happening due to the lack of some library. Here is some of the core packages that I have removed

gnome theme accessibility checkmedia dracut-kiwi-live dialog f2fs-tools gstreamer-plugins-farstream hdparm info manufacturer-PPDs ntfsprogs rsync wmctrl xdg-menu xorriso atasmart Unfiltered:libabw-0_1-1 libapr1-0 libapr-util1-0 libBasicUsageEnvironment1 libboost_date_time1_78_0 libboost_filesystem1_78_0 libboost_iostreams1_78_0 libboost_locale1_78_0 libbox2d2 libbrasero-burn3-1 libbrasero-media3-1 libbrasero-utils3-1 libcddb2 libcdr-0_1-1 libchromaprint1 libclucene-contribs-lib1 libclucene-core1 libclucene-shared1 libclutter-1_0-0 libclutter-gtk-1_0-0 libcogl20 libcogl-pango20 libdvbpsi10 libebml5 libe-book-0_1-1 libeot0 libepubgen-0_1-1 libetonyek-0_1-1 libexiv2-27 libexttextcat libexttextcat-2_0-0 libfreehand-0_1-1 libglslang11 libgpgmepp6 libgroupsock30 libgspell-1-2 libgtksourceview-4-0 libidn12 libixion-0_16-0 libixml11 libkate1 liblangtag1 libliveMedia102 liblpsolve55-0 libmad0 libmatroska7 libmspub-0_1-1 libmwaw-0_3-3 libmythes-1_2-0 libnumbertext-1_0-0 libnumbertext-data libodfgen-0_1-1 liborcus-0_16-0 libpagemaker-0_0-0 libpeas-1_0-0 libpeas-gtk-1_0-0 libplacebo157 libprojectM3 libQt5X11Extras5 libqxp-0_0-0 librasqal3 librdf librevenge-0_0-0 librevenge-stream-0_0-0 libserf-1-1 libshaderc_shared1 libspeexdsp1 libSPIRV-Tools-suse23 libstaroffice-0_0-0 libtotem-plparser18 libupnp17 libUsageEnvironment3 libvisio-0_1-1 libvlc5 libvlccore9 libwpd-0_10-10 libwpg-0_3-3 libwps-0_4-4 libxcb-composite0 libxmlsec1-1 libxmlsec1-nss1 libzmf-0_0-0 totem-pl-parser typelib-1_0-GtkSource-4 typelib-1_0-Peas-1_0 atmel-firmware bcm20702a1-firmware libdaemon0 libpoppler116 nss-mdns pipewire-alsa poppler-tools python38-apipkg python38-cached-property python38-certifi python38-cffi python38-charset-normalizer python38-cryptography python38-dragonmapper python38-hanzidentifier python38-idna python38-iniconfig python38-loguru python38-prettytable python38-py python38-pycparser python38-pycups python38-pycurl python38-pyOpenSSL python38-requests python38-six python38-urllib3 python38-wcwidth python38-zhon python3-cupshelpers udev-configure-printer faenza-icon-theme gtk2-metatheme-mint gtk3-metatheme-mint yast2-printer ModemManager xf86-video-intel jfsutils gtk2&3-greybird-theme virtualbox-guest-tools virtualbox-guest-x11 virtualbox-kmp-default

I tried my best to not remove essential packages. I am sorry, I know I should not have done it. Tried to keep broadcom, realtek and intel firmware. Removed feature I did not need like IPhone support etc

[amethystgosling]

Hey, can you test if the bug exists in a fresh install on real hardware in a fresh install by setting the panel to autohide and then in nemo quickly change directories from the sidebar? At the very least try it on your current install, so that I at least know if reinstalling is going to make a difference.