gnome-shell gsignal.c xxxx instance xxxx has no handler with id xxxx

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • Fresh RHEL 8.4 installation give following error messages gsignal.c:2641 or Object .Gjs_CapsLockWarning
$grep -i journal messages 
Jul 29 17:09:44 abc-108 journal[5834]: gsignal.c:2641: instance '0x55ef1ee63280' has no handler with id '56105'
Jul 29 17:09:44 abc-108 journal[5834]: clutter_actor_get_preferred_height: assertion 'CLUTTER_IS_ACTOR (self)' failed
Jul 29 17:09:44 abc-108 journal[5834]: Object .Gjs_CapsLockWarning (0x55ef21001770), has been already deallocated — impossible to get any property from it. This might be caused by the object having been destroyed from C code using something such as destroy(), dispose(), or remove() vfuncs.
  • Error message not handling error failed
Jul 30 06:50:38 abc-108 gnome-software[6112]: not handling error failed for action refresh: The name :1.258 was not provided by any .service files
Jul 30 06:50:38 abc-108 gnome-software[6112]: not handling error not-supported for action get-updates: The name :1.258 was not provided by any .service files

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4
  • gnome-shell-3.32.2-30.el8.x86_64

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6

  • gnome-shell-3.28.3-6.el7.x86_64

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