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gnome-shell crashed with signal 5 in _XIOError()

Bug #1611053 reported by Cristian Aravena Romero on 2016-08-08

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #1505409: gnome-shell crashed with SIGTRAP in x_io_error() from _XIOError() from _XEventsQueued() from XPending() from gdk_check_xpending() ["Connection to xwayland lost"]. Edit Remove

This bug affects 7 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	GNOME Shell	Incomplete	Critical	gnome-bugs #769653
	gnome-shell (Ubuntu)	Invalid	Medium	Unassigned

Bug Description

Start GNOME-Ubuntu and Crash gnome-shell

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.10
Package: gnome-shell 3.18.5-0ubuntu2
Uname: Linux 4.7.0-040700-lowlatency x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.3-0ubuntu5
Architecture: amd64
CrashCounter: 1
CurrentDesktop: GNOME
Date: Mon Aug 8 12:44:08 2016
DisplayManager: gdm3
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-shell
GsettingsChanges:

InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-07-26 (379 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-GNOME 15.10 "Wily Werewolf" - Alpha amd64 (20150723)
ProcCmdline: gnome-shell --mode=gdm --wayland --display-server
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=es_CL:es
PATH=(custom, no user)
XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
LANG=es_CL.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/false
Signal: 5
SourcePackage: gnome-shell
StacktraceTop:
?? () from /usr/lib/libmutter.so.0
_XIOError () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libX11.so.6
_XEventsQueued () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libX11.so.6
XPending () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libX11.so.6
?? () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgdk-3.so.0
Title: gnome-shell crashed with signal 5 in _XIOError()
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
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Cristian Aravena Romero (caravena) wrote on 2016-08-08:

Dependencies.txt Edit (22.9 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Disassembly.txt Edit (913 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
JournalErrors.txt Edit (62.7 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcMaps.txt Edit (130.6 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcStatus.txt Edit (998 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Registers.txt Edit (684 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Stacktrace.txt Edit (1.4 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ThreadStacktrace.txt Edit (9.3 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

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Apport retracing service (apport) wrote on 2016-08-08:

StacktraceTop:
x_io_error () from /tmp/apport_sandbox_nmKw_z/usr/lib/libmutter.so.0
_XIOError (dpy=dpy@entry=0x556e85068240) at ../../src/XlibInt.c:1464
_XEventsQueued (dpy=dpy@entry=0x556e85068240, mode=mode@entry=2) at ../../src/xcb_io.c:366
XPending (dpy=0x556e85068240) at ../../src/Pending.c:55
?? ()

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Apport retracing service (apport) wrote on 2016-08-08: Stacktrace.txt

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Apport retracing service (apport) wrote on 2016-08-08: StacktraceSource.txt

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Apport retracing service (apport) wrote on 2016-08-08: ThreadStacktrace.txt

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Changed in gnome-shell (Ubuntu):
importance:	Undecided → Medium
tags:	removed: need-amd64-retrace

Cristian Aravena Romero (caravena) on 2016-08-08

information type:

Private → Public

Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater) on 2016-08-09

Changed in gnome-shell:
importance:	Unknown → Critical
status:	Unknown → Confirmed

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2016-10-30:

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

Changed in gnome-shell (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Confirmed

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Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt) wrote on 2017-08-14:

Thank you for reporting this bug to Ubuntu.
Ubuntu 16.10 (yakkety) reached end-of-life on July 20, 2017.

See this document for currently supported Ubuntu releases:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases

We appreciate that this bug may be old and you might not be interested in discussing it any more. But if you are then please upgrade to the latest Ubuntu version and re-test.

Changed in gnome-shell (Ubuntu):
status:	Confirmed → Incomplete

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Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt) wrote on 2017-08-14:

Note there are many similar crashes elsewhere:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-shell?field.searchtext=_XIOError

Changed in gnome-shell (Ubuntu):
status:	Incomplete → Invalid

Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater) on 2018-01-04

Changed in gnome-shell:
status:	Confirmed → Incomplete

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Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt) wrote on 2018-01-04:

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 1505409, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.