Ubuntu 26.04 Dock crashes

[Jens55]

The VNC incompatibility is precisely why I had suspected the issue might be connected to this. The machine that crashes does NOT run a VNC server. It runs a VNC viewer to log into a different computer that runs the VNC server. To test my theory that this might cause problems, I never started the VNC viewer after rebooting the Ubuntu 26.04 machine. The system still crashed. It seemed to take longer which is why I was hoping I had located the problem but alas, it still crashed.
I have installed the TigerVNC viewer and will see if running it instead of the RealVNC viewer makes any difference.
Earlier, I tried installing a different desktop environment as well as X11 but I have spent years in the standard Ubuntu desktop environment and switching was too much of a shock to my old fart brain so I abandoned that idea.
I have several headless machines (Raspberries) that run RealVNC servers. They are all controlled via this computer(Ubuntu 26.04) and my second computer running Ubuntu 25.10. The Raspberries had to stay with a fairly old version of the Raspberry OS in order to run a RealVNC server. I was not prepared to switch the Raspberries OS's and run a newer VNC server (again, old fart trying to run newfangled software and a royal screw-up is pretty much guaranteed).

 

[Jens55]

As expected, the dock crashed even though I had the TigerVNC viewer running.

 

[Rocketing-warp9]

Hmmm. Do you use any Doc extensions? Anything within Gnome 50 that could cause instability?
I'm Running out of ideas

 

[CaffeineAddict]

Ubuntu 26.04 sadly completely dropped support for x11

Where are now wayland preachers to preach how wayland is the way to go?
I'm sure they can help resolve this problem.

 

[Rocketing-warp9]

Where are now wayland preachers to preach how wayland is the way to go?
I'm sure they can help resolve this problem.

I'm Starting to think a GNOME Extension or a incompatibility somewhere with Wayland or X11toWayland Bridge.
This, Is sadly where My end of the Train ends. I can See if I Can Throw Some more ideas that might Stick, but This is uncharted seas for me.

@Jens55 Do you use any GNOME Extensions? Like Dash2Dock & etc? It might be related if you do.

 

[Jens55]

I looked at the extensions and from what I gather, I need the connector package to be installed for any extensions to function. I do not have the connector installed. Having said that, at the bottom left of my screen there is the icon with 9 dots. If I click on it I can see all installed apps but if I do a two finger click on my track pad I get a small dash to dock window that allows me to change settings. I don't know if this is native to Gnome 50 or if I installed something that I have forgotten about. If it is an extension then I do not know how to remove it.
Thanks for all your help rocketing-warp9!!