Issue with Tailscale Extension - error spam to log

Bluefin and Aurora
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EDIT: I rebased bluefin-dx to stable. Forgot to mention.

I’m having issues with the Tailscale extension, where it just spams the system logs with this message. Does anyone know if this is a misconfiguration somewhere or if the Tailscale extension behaves the same way to them?

Sep 20 11:08:22 xxxxx gnome-shell[6573]: TypeError: can't convert null to object
                                         _listen@file:///usr/share/gnome-shell/extensions/tailscale@joaophi.github.com/tailscale.js:308:32
                                         async*_init@file:///usr/share/gnome-shell/extensions/tailscale@joaophi.github.com/tailscale.js:122:12
                                         Tailscale@file:///usr/share/gnome-shell/extensions/tailscale@joaophi.github.com/tailscale.js:108:3
                                         enable@file:///usr/share/gnome-shell/extensions/tailscale@joaophi.github.com/extension.js:219:23
                                         _callExtensionEnable@resource:///org/gnome/shell/ui/extensionSystem.js:266:38
                                         _onEnabledExtensionsChanged@resource:///org/gnome/shell/ui/extensionSystem.js:626:24
                                         _loadExtensions/<@resource:///org/gnome/shell/ui/extensionSystem.js:731:18
                                         createCheckedMethod/<@resource:///org/gnome/gjs/modules/core/overrides/Gio.js:730:46
                                         enableExtension@resource:///org/gnome/shell/ui/extensionSystem.js:289:29
                                         EnableExtension@resource:///org/gnome/shell/ui/shellDBus.js:453:38
                                         _handleMethodCall@resource:///org/gnome/gjs/modules/core/overrides/Gio.js:329:38
                                         _wrapJSObject/<@resource:///org/gnome/gjs/modules/core/overrides/Gio.js:408:34
                                         @resource:///org/gnome/shell/ui/init.js:21:20

I am also trying to figure out why the GNOME lock screen freezes on resume from suspend, and I have a slight suspicion that either the Tailscale extension, or the Caffeine extension is the culprit, somehow.

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I just noticed this. To be honest, I have no idea what tailscale is and what job(s) it is performing on my behalf. How can I remove it from my system?

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I ended up disabling both the Tailscale extension as well as Caffeine. The former because I don’t need it, and the latter because it was the cause for the freezes.

As for your question: https://tailscale.com/

I thought it was odd that a VPN gets bundled with Bluefin because none of the companies I work for use it, but it wasn’t a big deal to disable and remove the extension. Remove the extension with the Extension Manager app, and use systemctl to stop and disable tailscaled.service.