On Fri, 30 Aug 2019 07:42:58 -0500 SternData subscribed-lists@sterndata.com wrote:
I thought this was a video related, but it turns out to be audio. If I play a video or audio via Chrome, gnome-shell crashes as soon as I un-mute the media player. Unfortunately, the crash does not leave a reportable dump file.
Any ideas of what to look at?
Have you looked in journalctl? If you run journalctl -r immediately after the crash, you should have the latest messages at the top (the -r reverses the log so latest are first). Is there anything there about the crash? Also, if you do a journalctl -b and look at the boot messages, see if your sound device is recognized properly. You could instead do an aplay -lv to see that alsa has recognized your sound devices. If you run ps alx | grep pulse do you see pulseaudio running? If pulseaudio is running and you run pavucontrol, is your default device set correctly?