On 8/30/19 9:01 AM, stan via users wrote:
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?
It turns out to have been the "Laine" gnome shell extension.
Disabling that fixed the issue.