gnome-shell crashed with SIGSEGV in g_type_check_instance_is_fundamentally_a() from g_value_set_object() from object_get_property()

[Bruce Pieterse]

https://errors.ubuntu.com/problem/b3f30475bb4ce680bdb8c55709a9edecaf67adb2

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Occurred when clicking on Thunderbird via Dash to Dock. GNOME Shell hung straight after clicking on Thunderbird.

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 17.10
Package: gnome-shell 3.26.1-0ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.13.0-15.16-generic 4.13.4
Uname: Linux 4.13.0-15-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.7-0ubuntu3
Architecture: amd64
CrashCounter: 1
CurrentDesktop: GNOME
Date: Sun Oct 15 07:23:08 2017
DisplayManager: gdm3
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-shell
InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-10-25 (354 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-GNOME 16.04.1 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release amd64 (20160720)
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/gnome-shell
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_ZA:en
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_ZA.UTF-8
 SHELL=/usr/bin/zsh
SegvAnalysis:
 Segfault happened at: 0x7fa17da06cdf <g_type_check_instance_is_fundamentally_a+15>: mov (%rdx),%rdx
 PC (0x7fa17da06cdf) ok
 source "(%rdx)" (0x00000550) not located in a known VMA region (needed readable region)!
 destination "%rdx" ok
SegvReason: reading NULL VMA
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: gnome-shell
StacktraceTop:
 g_type_check_instance_is_fundamentally_a () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgobject-2.0.so.0
 g_value_set_object () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgobject-2.0.so.0
 g_object_get_property () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgobject-2.0.so.0
 ?? () from /usr/lib/libgjs.so.0
 ?? () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libmozjs-52.so.0
Title: gnome-shell crashed with SIGSEGV in g_type_check_instance_is_fundamentally_a()
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups: adm cdrom dip lpadmin lxd plugdev sambashare sbuild sudo vboxusers

[Apport retracing service (apport)]

StacktraceTop:
 g_type_check_instance_is_fundamentally_a (type_instance=type_instance@entry=0x556d4a1ff3f0, fundamental_type=fundamental_type@entry=80) at ../../../../gobject/gtype.c:4025
 g_value_set_object (value=0x7ffe28153830, v_object=0x556d4a1ff3f0) at ../../../../gobject/gobject.c:3880
 object_get_property (value=0x7ffe28153830, pspec=0x556d48d36b00, object=0x556d4a1fee70) at ../../../../gobject/gobject.c:1394
 g_object_get_property (object=0x556d4a1fee70, property_name=<optimized out>, value=value@entry=0x7ffe28153830) at ../../../../gobject/gobject.c:2591
 get_prop_from_g_param (priv=0x556d4a1fe480, value_p=..., name=<optimized out>, context=0x556d483aae00, obj=...) at gi/object.cpp:289

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

This issue is also being tracked in:
https://errors.ubuntu.com/problem/b3f30475bb4ce680bdb8c55709a9edecaf67adb2

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

2266 reports on artful, then 2 on bionic. Sounds like it was fixed.