help diagnosing crashes that happen when guake window is open
- Dominant language
- Python
- Stars
- 4.7k
- Forks
- 604
- PR merge metrics
- No merged PRs in 30d
Description
**Describe the bug**
Hello. I am a longtime, avid user of guake, and I am having trouble with persistent system crashes which invariably occur when the guake window is open (toggled on). I am posting this issue as a request for help to diagnose what the underlying problem is.
About once a week, my computer crashes, becoming completely unresponsive. The monitors are frozen in place, mouse and keyboard input does nothing, and the machine will no longer respond to a ping over the network.
The one persistent aspect of these crashes is that I am always working in my guake dropdown terminal at the time.
When I hard reboot the machine, the logs end abruptly, typically very soon after the "Sending 'toggle' message to Guake3" was written.
```
Nov 29 14:34:59 ebba dbus-daemon[9250]: apparmor="DENIED" operation="dbus_method_call" bus="session" path="/org/gnome/Mutter/IdleMonitor/Core" interface="org.gnome.Mutter.IdleMonitor" member="GetIdletime" mask="send" name=":1.38" pid=143979 label="snap.firefox.firefox" peer_pid=9427 peer_label="unconfined"
Nov 29 14:35:01 ebba CRON[1919167]: (root) CMD (command -v debian-sa1 > /dev/null && debian-sa1 1 1)
Nov 29 14:36:04 ebba systemd[9229]: Started Application launched by gsd-media-keys.
Nov 29 14:36:04 ebba gsd-media-keys[1919280]: Sending 'toggle' message to Guake3
Nov 29 14:36:19 ebba systemd[9229]: Started Application launched by gsd-media-keys.
Nov 29 14:36:19 ebba gsd-media-keys[1919326]: Sending 'toggle' message to Guake3
```
view in vim showing the undisplayable characters as `^@`:

Guake is a critical part of my workflow and I'm getting a bit desperate to figure this out. I recently built from master and was using that in hopes it might resolve the issue, only to have suffered a crash just now.
**Expected behavior**
System continues to operate normally.
**Actual behavior**
System becomes completely unresponsive.
**To Reproduce**
Frequently use guake on my cursed workstation for about a week.
**My `$ guake --support` output**
$ guake --support
Guake Version: 3.11.dev6
Vte Version: 0.68.0
Vte Runtime Version: 0.68.0
--------------------------------------------------
GTK+ Version: 3.24.33
GDK Backend:
Contributor guide
No contributing guide indexed for this repository
Assessment
This issue has not been assessed yet.