Hi not sure if others have started experiencing this in the last week or so after an update perhaps. Started getting problems with Gnome Files and System settings not responding and a dialogue box saying force quit or wait. Pressing wait several times seems to make no difference. While hitting force quite doesn’t seem to work either. As a last resort right clicking in the task bar and quitting from there seems to crash the Gnome session and return me to a log in screen - where I’m then able to log back in.
I’ve been able to use Thunar or an older Nemo Files version which both seem to work OK. Problem for me is I don’t seem to be able to change the default app for handling files as this is not shown as an option in the system settings which may then also freeze any way. So I’m unable to save any downloads etc. as it either freezes or crashes me out to log back in.
Has any one else come across this been experiencing similar issues or are any admins or maintainers aware of a generic gnome issue. I saw something similar mentioned on Gnome forum so pretty sure it is the DE issue rather than Opensuse specific.
Finally sorry for such a long winded post, but in the interim does anyone know how I might be able to change the system default file handler from Gnome files to Thunar?
Thanks for reading and any help if you can offer it.
Yes I generally use sudo zypper dup. Although I also look at Gnome software to update apps too and that did offer some system updates the other day which seemed to fail. Also check Myrlyn sometimes too.
After being crashed out again I have tried switching to an X11 Session and the problem doesn’t seem to be present. So could be Gnome/ Wayland related perhaps?
That’s good to know. I rolled back to a snapshot from about a week ago and then ran sudo zypper dup. This does not appear to make a difference.
Some A:B testing when booting between kernel 6.16.0 and 6.15.8, when launching nautilus in the newer kernel I get the following:
me@system:~> nautilus
** Message: 11:36:45.017: Connecting to org.freedesktop.Tracker3.Miner.Files
** Message: 11:36:45.353: Called "net usershare info" but it failed: 'net usershare' returned error 255: net usershare: usershares are currently disabled
The call also remains open ie; I can’t enter any new commands until after I have ^C.
I don’t get this message on 6.15.0, and the command finishes cleanly without hanging.
That looks normal, seen here too with a default install and Nautilus (or System monitor or System Settings for that matter) working as usual on Wayland.
Might be HW dependent? Anything Ryzen or Nvidia involved?
Yes to both. Ryzen 7900X and an RTX 3080 TI. GNOME 48.8 on Wayland.
I’m definitely suspicious of the recent Nvidia driver update. It seems that any application related to GNOME runs into this crashing issue. It’s weird that rolling back to an older kernel fixes the problem, though.
I might try downgrading my Nvida driver back to 570 next. Stay tuned
Please use the preformatted text feature - the “</>” button in the forums editor (probably hidden behind the cock wheel button) - to show computer output in your posts.
And do not only show the output but as well the command which produced the output and the next empty command prompt.
That might point to a Vulkan problem, since Vulkan is the default renderer with Wayland, while NGL should be still the default with X11.
If that is the case a look at gnome-show-blank-windows might help.
Hi thanks for taking the time to comment. Yes the Pc has a Radeon graphics capability but this is built into the Processor: AMD Ryzen™ 5 5600G with Radeon™ Graphics × 12 so that is always on I guess, but not in use as I have a two monitor set up both driven from the Nvidia Graphics Card so I can use the display port and HDR capabilities of my main monitor in Gnome with Wayland and the other monitor connected via HDMI.
Not sure about the Vulkan thing as the output for --info summary looked the same on Wayland as far as I could tell.
Here is what Nvidia SMI had to say
nvidia-smi
Sun Aug 17 08:04:13 2025
±----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| NVIDIA-SMI 580.76.05 Driver Version: 580.76.05 CUDA Version: 13.0 |
±----------------------------------------±-----------------------±---------------------+
| GPU Name Persistence-M | Bus-Id Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC |
| Fan Temp Perf Pwr:Usage/Cap | Memory-Usage | GPU-Util Compute M. |
| | | MIG M. |
|=========================================+========================+======================|
| 0 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB On | 00000000:01:00.0 On | N/A |
| 0% 56C P0 29W / 120W | 652MiB / 3072MiB | 1% Default |
| | | N/A |
±----------------------------------------±-----------------------±---------------------+
±----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Processes: |
| GPU GI CI PID Type Process name GPU Memory |
| ID ID Usage |
|=========================================================================================|
| 0 N/A N/A 8615 G /usr/bin/gnome-shell 302MiB |
| 0 N/A N/A 9091 G /usr/bin/Xwayland 2MiB |
| 0 N/A N/A 9382 G …/protonmail/bridge/bridge-gui 23MiB |
| 0 N/A N/A 9977 G /usr/lib64/firefox/firefox 223MiB |
| 0 N/A N/A 10957 C+G /usr/bin/nautilus 27MiB |
| 0 N/A N/A 11392 G …pareRendererForSitePerProcess 45MiB |
±----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
Oh and the files app (Nautilus as was I guess) has just given the force quit / wait dialogue again.
Seem like my only work around at the moment is to log into an X11 gnome session, unless any of the above points to any solutions - someone else seemed to think it might be latest dreaded Nvidia driver update to 580.