gnome-shell crashed with signal 5 in _XIOError()

[Daniel Halvorsen]

1)

$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu Artful Aardvark (development branch)
Release: 17.10
Codename: artful

2)

sudo apt-cache policy gnome-shell
gnome-shell:
  Installed: 3.24.3-0ubuntu4
  Candidate: 3.24.3-0ubuntu4
  Version table:
 *** 3.24.3-0ubuntu4 500
        500 http://no.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu artful/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

3)
Don't know. Error came right after login after a clean boot.

4)
Gnome seems to work after error reporting was done. Have not been able to reproduce.

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 17.10
Package: gnome-shell 3.24.3-0ubuntu4
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.12.0-11.12-generic 4.12.5
Uname: Linux 4.12.0-11-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.6-0ubuntu7
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: GNOME-Greeter:GNOME
Date: Sat Aug 26 10:11:11 2017
DisplayManager: gdm3
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-shell
GsettingsChanges:

InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-08-11 (15 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 17.10 "Artful Aardvark" - Alpha amd64 (20170807)
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/gnome-shell
Signal: 5
SourcePackage: gnome-shell
StacktraceTop:
 ?? () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libmutter-0.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)
UserGroups:

[Apport retracing service (apport)]

StacktraceTop:
 x_io_error (display=<optimized out>) at wayland/meta-xwayland.c:411
 _XIOError (dpy=dpy@entry=0x6c25627000) at ../../src/XlibInt.c:1469
 _XEventsQueued (dpy=dpy@entry=0x6c25627000, mode=mode@entry=2) at ../../src/xcb_io.c:352
 XPending (dpy=0x6c25627000) at ../../src/Pending.c:55
 ?? ()

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

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.