gnome-shell crashed with SIGSEGV in closure_invoke_notifiers()

[chris pollock]

Gnome Shell appeared to crash and then restart after doing software update.

lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 16.04.2 LTS
Release: 16.04

apt-cache policy gnome-shell
gnome-shell:
  Installed: 3.18.5-0ubuntu0.2
  Candidate: 3.18.5-0ubuntu0.2
  Version table:
 *** 3.18.5-0ubuntu0.2 500
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/universe amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     3.18.4-0ubuntu3 500
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/universe amd64 Packages

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: gnome-shell 3.18.5-0ubuntu0.2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-78.99-generic 4.4.62
Uname: Linux 4.4.0-78-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.6
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: GNOME
Date: Mon Jun 5 17:06:48 2017
Disassembly: => 0x0: Cannot access memory at address 0x0
DisplayManager: gdm3
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-shell
InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-10-24 (955 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64 (20140417)
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/gnome-shell
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SegvAnalysis:
 Segfault happened at: 0x0: Cannot access memory at address 0x0
 PC (0x00000000) not located in a known VMA region (needed executable region)!
SegvReason: executing NULL VMA
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: gnome-shell
StacktraceTop:
 ?? ()
 g_closure_invalidate () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgobject-2.0.so.0
 g_closure_unref () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgobject-2.0.so.0
 ?? () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
 g_main_context_dispatch () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
Title: gnome-shell crashed with SIGSEGV in g_closure_invalidate()
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups: adm cdrom dip kvm libvirtd lpadmin netdev plugdev sambashare sudo

[Apport retracing service (apport)]

StacktraceTop:
 ?? ()
 closure_invoke_notifiers (notify_type=<optimized out>, closure=<optimized out>) at /build/glib2.0-prJhLS/glib2.0-2.48.2/./gobject/gclosure.c:274
 g_closure_invalidate (closure=0x6e159b0) at /build/glib2.0-prJhLS/glib2.0-2.48.2/./gobject/gclosure.c:583
 g_closure_unref (closure=0x6e159b0) at /build/glib2.0-prJhLS/glib2.0-2.48.2/./gobject/gclosure.c:605
 g_source_destroy_internal (source=0x87b02f0, context=0x110a2b0, have_lock=1) at /build/glib2.0-prJhLS/glib2.0-2.48.2/./glib/gmain.c:1207

[chris pollock (cpollock)]

Gnome Shell crashed again this morning while doing software update with Webmin 1.880.

apt-cache policy webmin
webmin:
  Installed: 1.880
  Candidate: 1.880

lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 16.04.4 LTS
Release: 16.04

uname -a
Linux localhost 4.13.0-37-generic #42~16.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Wed Mar 7 16:03:28 UTC 2018 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

[chris pollock (cpollock)]

Gnome Shell crashed again just now while updating

Start-Date: 2018-04-02 15:38:42
Commandline: apt dist-upgrade
Requested-By: chris (1000)
Upgrade: openjdk-8-jre:amd64 (8u151-b12-0ubuntu0.16.04.2, 8u162-b12-0ubuntu0.16.04.2), openjdk-8-jre-headless:amd64 (8u151-b12-0ubuntu0.16.04.2, 8u162-b12-0ubuntu0.16.04.2)
End-Date: 2018-04-02 15:43:29

from the command line. This is getting to be an almost constant occurrence, will this be fixed in 18.04?

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

Thank you for reporting this bug to Ubuntu.
Ubuntu GNOME 16.04 (xenial) reached end-of-life on April, 2019

https://ubuntugnome.org/ubuntu-gnome-16-04-lts-is-here/
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/XenialXerus/ReleaseNotes/UbuntuGNOME

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. If you then find the bug is still present in the newer Ubuntu version, please add a comment here telling us which new version it is in.