GNOME crashes Reddit
Mine was the same problem.
TL;DR: GNOME would flicker after opening new terminal window, and then crash after few minutes. It borked my upgrade to Buster in an attempt to fix it. I am on Fedora now, so really can't help with a bug report. I wanted to verify this, and since someone else has the same problem...I think it's a grave bug related to kernel.
GPU is Intel Broadwell HD graphics.
EDIT7: Update: Linux 4.9.80-1 (2018-02-04) from stretch-proposed updates fixes this bug. You can wait for 9.4 or add stretch-proposed repo and upgrade now.
EDIT6: Update Jan 26th: Bug is tagged as "patch available", so expect a fix soon.
EDIT1: How to reproduce: Open Terminal, switch to root and start typing. Wait with Terminal opened.
EDIT2: Workaround number 1 is to try installing a kernel from backports. To be safe, switch to tty using CTL+Alt+F2, then install and reboot. Workaround number 2 (only if upgrading from 9.2) is to hold the linux package using:
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apt-mark hold linux-image-amd64
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apt-mark hold linux-image-686-pae
You can then upgrade the rest normally. You can also boot to a older kernel by selecting "advanced options for Debian" from the grub menu, if you ended up upgrading linux.
EDIT3: Bug is already reported 2 hours ago as of this writing. Same thing:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugrepo ... bug=884116
I hope there is a fix soon. Fedora is showing it's bad quirks right now, I need a stable system.
EDIT4: As of December 24th, this bug is fixed in the linux security update.
EDIT5: I spoke too soon, the problem is still there. Anoying, but you will have to wait for the next point release.