gnome-shell crashed with signal 5 in g_log_default_handler()

[ubuntu38]

The system is reporting this issue when I get logged into GNOME X11 session and I can't speak for if it is same using the Wayland session.

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.10
Package: gnome-shell 3.20.3-1ubuntu2
Uname: Linux 4.8.0-17-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.3-0ubuntu7
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: GNOME-Greeter:GNOME
Date: Sat Oct 1 18:55:43 2016
DisplayManager: gdm3
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-shell
GsettingsChanges:

InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-10-26 (344 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-GNOME 15.10 "Wily Werewolf" - Alpha amd64 (20151017.1)
LocalLibraries: /usr/local/lib/libfreetype.so.6.12.2
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/gnome-shell
Signal: 5
SourcePackage: gnome-shell
StacktraceTop:
 g_log_default_handler () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
 ?? () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libmutter.so.0
 ?? ()
 ?? ()
 g_log_writer_journald () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
Title: gnome-shell crashed with signal 5 in g_log_default_handler()
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to yakkety on 2016-10-01 (2 days ago)
UserGroups:

[Apport retracing service (apport)]

StacktraceTop:
 g_log_default_handler () from /tmp/apport_sandbox_bsyJwC/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
 ?? () from /tmp/apport_sandbox_bsyJwC/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libmutter.so.0
 ?? ()
 default_log_handler (log_domain=0xba4f654f48e14700 <error: Cannot access memory at address 0xba4f654f48e14700>, log_level=627046208, message=0x5592255ff740 "Connection to xwayland lost", data=0x559224f45ad0) at main.c:313
 g_log_writer_journald () from /tmp/apport_sandbox_bsyJwC/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

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

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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.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for gnome-shell (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

[Alexander-Shariff-Vetter (asv-infinity)]

my real distro release is Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Bionic Beaver Alpha 1

[Per-Inge (per-inge-hallin)]

I suppose it's this bug even if I'm on Ubuntu 18.04 with kernel 4.15-RC3

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

This bug should have been kept as Expired ideally, especially since the original reporter has not yet replied to comment #6. And users of newer Ubuntu releases should log new bugs in future, please.

That all said, looking at the attached Stacktrace.txt and StacktraceSource.txt, I can tell this is actually a duplicate of the most common gnome-shell crash; bug 1505409