I am suffering a bad stability regression with GNOME 3 in openSUSE 13.1. With a certain Huawei USB 3G stick, I've had to restart ModemManager (via pkill ModemManager) and/or pull and reinsert the USB stick for years. This is necessary since ModemManager fails to properly close open ports when a connection breaks. Not ideal, but effective. With GNOME 3 on openSUSE 13.1, often this leads to GNOME Shell going down in flames when I try to reestablish a mobile broadband connection later on: [88116.886900] gnome-shell[1548]: segfault at d445000 ip 00007fa416282eb6 sp 00007fff06649fc8 error 4 in libc-2.18.so[7fa41615a000+1a5000] [88144.679178] e1000e 0000:00:19.0: irq 46 for MSI/MSI-X [88144.779906] e1000e 0000:00:19.0: irq 46 for MSI/MSI-X [88144.780145] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): enp0s25: link is not ready [88144.782651] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: L1 Enabled; Disabling L0S [88144.789305] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: Radio type=0x1-0x2-0x0 [88144.872905] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlp3s0: link is not ready [88170.571392] gnome-shell[23540]: segfault at 6675000 ip 00007f2f3b713eb6 sp 00007fffe8e24d68 error 4 in libc-2.18.so[7f2f3b5eb000+1a5000] [88253.631370] gnome-shell[24105]: segfault at 6a5e000 ip 00007fda95f25eb6 sp 00007fff8c9a17f8 error 4 in libc-2.18.so[7fda95dfd000+1a5000] Logging out is not sufficient, I really need to reboot the machine when that happens to get mobile broadband to work again. Is GNOME Shell really a monolithic mega process that allows one aspect of it to tear down the entire desktop environment when GNOME 2 would handle a pkill gnome-shell very satisfactorily? The primary question is this, though: How can I provide input for someone to have a reasonable chance of fixing it? Gerald -- Dr. Gerald Pfeifer Sr. Director Product Management and Operations, SUSE -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+owner@opensuse.org