gnome-shell crashed with SIGTRAP in g_settings_set_property() from g_object_new_internal() from g_object_newv() from object_instance_init() from init_func()

[Matt Austin]

Gnome shell froze/crashed whist using gnome-terminal on a fairly fresh install (Ubutntu GNOME 16.04 Beta 2)

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: gnome-shell 3.18.4-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-15.31-generic 4.4.6
Uname: Linux 4.4.0-15-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20-0ubuntu3
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: GNOME
Date: Sun Mar 27 14:45:49 2016
DisplayManager: gdm3
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-shell
GsettingsChanges:
 b'org.gnome.shell' b'favorite-apps' b"['firefox.desktop', 'org.gnome.Nautilus.desktop', 'gnome-terminal.desktop']"
 b'org.gnome.desktop.interface' b'gtk-im-module' b"'gtk-im-context-simple'"
InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-03-25 (1 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-GNOME 16.04 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Beta amd64 (20160323.1)
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/gnome-shell
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_AU:en
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_AU.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
Signal: 5
SourcePackage: gnome-shell
StacktraceTop:
 ?? () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgio-2.0.so.0
 ?? () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgobject-2.0.so.0
 g_object_newv () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgobject-2.0.so.0
 ?? () from /usr/lib/libgjs.so.0
 ?? () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libmozjs-24.so.0
Title: gnome-shell crashed with signal 5 in g_object_newv()
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups: adm cdrom dip docker lpadmin plugdev sambashare sudo

[Apport retracing service (apport)]

StacktraceTop:
 g_settings_set_property () from /tmp/apport_sandbox__kgxd9/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgio-2.0.so.0
 g_object_new_internal () from /tmp/apport_sandbox__kgxd9/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgobject-2.0.so.0
 g_object_newv () from /tmp/apport_sandbox__kgxd9/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgobject-2.0.so.0
 object_instance_init (argv=<optimized out>, argc=<optimized out>, object=<synthetic pointer>, context=0x148fd10) at gi/object.cpp:1272
 init_func (context=0x148fd10, argc=<optimized out>, vp=0x7fff73779fb8) at gi/object.cpp:1858

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

I don't think we support GNOME in 16.04, so if this crash is still a problem then please try upgrading to a later version.