"Oh no! Something has gone wrong!" when attempting to restart GNOME Shell 45 on X.org on Arch Linux
Today, I just updated all packages on my Arch system to their latest versions.
GNOME Shell worked normally at first, but it gave me a nasty surprise when I attempted to Ctrl-F2r to restart GNOME Shell to test extension: It crash with the message "Oh no! Something has gone wrong!"
Even after having the extensions disabled, then reboot the whole PC, the issue still persists.
This crash can be reproduced pretty reliably with a single exception: There was exactly one time where r-restarting GNOME Shell works as expected, but try again quickly crash it.
I also tried pkill -HUP gnome-shell
to restart GNOME Shell another way, but it also crashes with the same message.
This is the log message after I have restarted GNOME Shell log_messages_when_restarting_gnome_shell.log. Extensions were disabled, but I doubt this log contains the relevant error message as my system may purge the logs after each session. Anyway, let me know if I need to reproduce this log again.
System Information
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pacman -Q gnome-shell
:1:45.4-1