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Created Nov 01, 2019 by Leon Lagodny@leonlag

gnome shell-crashes during launch when GDK_BACKEND=wayland

If GDK_BACKEND=wayland when launching gnome from gdm, gnome-shell crashes. I set this in ~/.config/environment.d/ to force all applications to use wayland but discovered this. Removing it, reverts everything back to normal again

(gdb) bt
0  0x00007fe99ada9625 in raise () at /lib64/libc.so.6
1  0x000056464576a322 in dump_gjs_stack_on_signal_handler (signo=5) at ../src/main.c:394
2  0x00007fe99ada96b0 in <signal handler called> () at /lib64/libc.so.6
3  0x00007fe99bb8e6e5 in _g_log_abort () at /lib64/libglib-2.0.so.0
4  0x00007fe99bb8f769 in g_log_default_handler () at /lib64/libglib-2.0.so.0
5  0x000056464576a3de in default_log_handler (log_domain=0x7fe99b093def "mutter", log_level=6, message=0x56464667cf10 "Failed to start Xwayland: Failed to initialize GDK", data=0x0) at ../src/main.c:338
6  0x00007fe99bb8f99b in g_logv () at /lib64/libglib-2.0.so.0
7  0x00007fe99bb8fb83 in g_log () at /lib64/libglib-2.0.so.0
8  0x00007fe99aff1673 in meta_display_open () at /lib64/libmutter-5.so.0
9  0x00007fe99affbb90 in meta_run () at /lib64/libmutter-5.so.0
10 0x0000564645769cad in main (argc=<optimized out>, argv=<optimized out>) at ../src/main.c:552
% cat /etc/os-release
NAME=Fedora
VERSION="31 (Workstation Edition)"
ID=fedora
VERSION_ID=31
VERSION_CODENAME=""
PLATFORM_ID="platform:f31"
PRETTY_NAME="Fedora 31 (Workstation Edition)"
ANSI_COLOR="0;34"
LOGO=fedora-logo-icon
CPE_NAME="cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:31"
HOME_URL="https://fedoraproject.org/"
DOCUMENTATION_URL="https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/fedora/f31/system-administrators-guide/"
SUPPORT_URL="https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicating_and_getting_help"
BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugzilla.redhat.com/"
REDHAT_BUGZILLA_PRODUCT="Fedora"
REDHAT_BUGZILLA_PRODUCT_VERSION=31
REDHAT_SUPPORT_PRODUCT="Fedora"
REDHAT_SUPPORT_PRODUCT_VERSION=31
PRIVACY_POLICY_URL="https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Legal:PrivacyPolicy"
VARIANT="Workstation Edition"
VARIANT_ID=workstation
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