gnome-shell crashed with SIGSEGV in meta_plugin_manager_xevent_filter()

[Arma1975]

~$ apt-cache policy pkgname
N: Unable to locate package pkgname

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 17.10
Package: gnome-shell 3.24.2-0ubuntu5
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.10.0-20.22-generic 4.10.8
Uname: Linux 4.10.0-20-generic i686
ApportVersion: 2.20.5-0ubuntu4
Architecture: i386
CrashCounter: 1
CurrentDesktop: GNOME-Classic:GNOME
Date: Thu Jun 1 23:02:45 2017
DisplayManager: gdm3
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-shell
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/gnome-shell
SegvAnalysis:
 Segfault happened at: 0xb71bc317 <meta_plugin_manager_xevent_filter+23>: pushl 0x4(%eax)
 PC (0xb71bc317) ok
 source "0x4(%eax)" (0x00000004) not located in a known VMA region (needed readable region)!
 destination "(%esp)" (0xbfe727a4) ok
SegvReason: reading NULL VMA
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: gnome-shell
StacktraceTop:
 meta_plugin_manager_xevent_filter () at /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libmutter-0.so.0
 () at /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libmutter-0.so.0
 g_main_context_dispatch () at /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
 () at /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
 g_main_context_iteration () at /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
Title: gnome-shell crashed with SIGSEGV in meta_plugin_manager_xevent_filter()
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups: adm autopilot cdrom dip libvirt lpadmin lxd plugdev sambashare sudo

[Arma1975 (arma1975)]

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[Apport retracing service (apport)]

StacktraceTop:
 meta_plugin_manager_xevent_filter (plugin_mgr=0x0, xev=0xbfe727fc) at compositor/meta-plugin-manager.c:289
 handle_host_xevent (event=0xbfe727fc, backend=0x80e750a0) at backends/x11/meta-backend-x11.c:257
 x_event_source_dispatch (source=0x80e773a8, callback=0x0, user_data=0x0) at backends/x11/meta-backend-x11.c:345
 g_main_dispatch (context=0x80e72530) at ../../../../glib/gmain.c:3234
 g_main_context_dispatch (context=0x80e72530) at ../../../../glib/gmain.c:3899

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

Thank you for reporting this bug to Ubuntu.
Ubuntu 17.10 (artful) reached end-of-life on July 19, 2018.

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[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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