gnome-shell crashed with SIGSEGV in meta_window_is_monitor_sized()

[hat121]

says error but still seems to work but happends everytime the computer is idle / left alone

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 17.10
Package: gnome-shell 3.26.0-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.13.0-12.13-generic 4.13.3
Uname: Linux 4.13.0-12-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_uvm nvidia_drm nvidia_modeset nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.20.7-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
CrashCounter: 1
CurrentDesktop: GNOME-Classic:GNOME
Date: Tue Oct 3 10:33:43 2017
DisplayManager: gdm3
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-shell
InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-04-18 (167 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-GNOME 17.04 "Zesty Zapus" - Release amd64 (20170412)
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/gnome-shell
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SegvAnalysis:
 Segfault happened at: 0x7f31c941ea53 <meta_window_is_monitor_sized+115>: mov 0x18(%rax),%esi
 PC (0x7f31c941ea53) ok
 source "0x18(%rax)" (0x00000018) not located in a known VMA region (needed readable region)!
 destination "%esi" ok
SegvReason: reading NULL VMA
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: gnome-shell
StacktraceTop:
 meta_window_is_monitor_sized () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libmutter-1.so.0
 ?? () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libmutter-1.so.0
 ?? () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libmutter-1.so.0
 ?? () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/mutter/libmutter-clutter-1.so
 ?? () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/mutter/libmutter-clutter-1.so
Title: gnome-shell crashed with SIGSEGV in meta_window_is_monitor_sized()
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to artful on 2017-10-01 (1 days ago)
UserGroups: adm cdrom dip lpadmin plugdev sambashare sudo

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StacktraceTop:
 meta_window_is_monitor_sized (window=window@entry=0x55bfd45f9510) at core/window.c:2918
 meta_surface_actor_x11_should_unredirect (actor=0x55bfd2022b30) at compositor/meta-surface-actor-x11.c:291
 meta_pre_paint_func (data=0x55bfcfcd8f20) at compositor/compositor.c:1076
 _clutter_run_repaint_functions (flags=flags@entry=CLUTTER_REPAINT_FLAGS_PRE_PAINT) at clutter-main.c:3433
 master_clock_update_stages (master_clock=0x55bfd0713300, stages=0x55bfd55bd040) at clutter-master-clock-default.c:437

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

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