I am opening this topic, hopefully in the right place, to discuss an issue that happens both on Discord and online to some users with clean installations of Kali. When using the default GNOME installation with the preloaded extensions, the system crashes and displays the image I have attached. The only way to get everything working again is to restart Kali. This happens randomly.
I have tested this problem, and it occurs on all my Kali systems with the kali-desktop-gnome. The issue is difficult to reproduce because it sometimes happens randomly after 7-8 hours of continuous use, and it does not occur consistently.
What have you tried:
I have tried updating and performing clean installations, but the issue persists. I looked through the logs for the problem, which I am sharing here, but I couldn’t identify the extension causing the issue.
log of gnome-shell in the same period of crash:
What is the error:
It’s a GNOME crash that forces a restart or logout. Sometimes, after logging out, the interface fails to load.
systemd-logind[860]: Existing logind session ID 3 used by new audit session, ignoring.
Jan 01 11:47:29 kali systemd-logind[860]: New session c8 of user root.
Jan 01 11:47:29 kali systemd[1]: Started session-c8.scope - Session c8 of User root.
Jan 01 11:49:58 kali gnome-shell[1764]: free(): corrupted unsorted chunks
Jan 01 11:49:58 kali gnome-shell[1764]: == Stack trace for context 0xaaaaf3616630 ==
Jan 01 11:49:58 kali gnome-shell[1764]: #0 aaaaf3709a78 i resource:///org/gnome/shell/ui/init.js:21 (74753170c90 @ 48)
Jan 01 11:49:58 kali systemd[1507]: [email protected]: Main process exited, code=killed, status=6/ABRT
Jan 01 11:49:58 kali systemd[1507]: [email protected]: Failed with result 'signal'.
Jan 01 11:49:58 kali systemd[1507]: [email protected]: Consumed 5min 24.536s CPU time, 375.9M memory peak.
Jan 01 11:49:58 kali systemd[1507]: [email protected]: Triggering OnFailure= dependencies.
Jan 01 11:49:58 kali systemd[1507]: [email protected]: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 1.
Jan 01 11:49:58 kali systemd[1507]: Started gnome-session-failed.service - GNOME Session Failed lockdown screen (user).
Jan 01 11:49:58 kali systemd[1507]: Reached target gnome-session-failed.target - GNOME Session Failed.
Jan 01 11:49:58 kali systemd[1507]: org.gnome.Shell-disable-extensions.service - Disable GNOME Shell extensions after failure was skipped because of an >
Jan 01 11:49:58 kali systemd[1507]: Starting [email protected] - GNOME Shell on X11...
Jan 01 11:49:58 kali gnome-shell[4979]: Running GNOME Shell (using mutter 47.3) as a X11 window and compositing manager
Jan 01 11:49:58 kali gnome-shell[4979]: Enabling experimental feature 'scale-monitor-framebuffer'
Jan 01 11:49:58 kali gsd-media-keys[1922]: Failed to grab accelerators: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownMethod
What device is this on:
I experienced this issue on an HP ProBook with an i7 processor and 16GB of RAM (bare metal) and on a Mac M1 virtualized with VMware Fusion. The same problem occurs, randomly and after many hours of use
Clearly, this happens with the preloaded extensions and the GNOME version installed during the Kali installation, so it remains on-topic for Kali. Unfortunately, I haven’t found any solutions online, so I was asking if anyone has found a solution to suggest.