gnome-shell crashed with SIGSEGV in g_type_check_instance_cast()

Bug #1723749 reported by Paolo Astengo
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This bug affects 2 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
gnome-shell (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
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Bug Description

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ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 17.10
Package: gnome-shell 3.26.1-0ubuntu3
Uname: Linux 4.13.7-041307-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_uvm nvidia_drm nvidia_modeset nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.20.7-0ubuntu3
Architecture: amd64
CrashCounter: 1
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Sun Oct 15 15:45:33 2017
DisplayManager: gdm3
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-shell
InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-05-20 (512 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 16.04 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release amd64 (20160420.1)
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/gnome-shell
SegvAnalysis:
 Segfault happened at: 0x7efce2aa4e0d <g_type_check_instance_cast+77>: movzbl 0x16(%rax),%edx
 PC (0x7efce2aa4e0d) ok
 source "0x16(%rax)" (0x100000016) not located in a known VMA region (needed readable region)!
 destination "%edx" ok
SegvReason: reading unknown VMA
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: gnome-shell
StacktraceTop:
 g_type_check_instance_cast () at /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgobject-2.0.so.0
 st_label_set_text () at /usr/lib/gnome-shell/libst-1.0.so
 ffi_call_unix64 () at /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libffi.so.6
 ffi_call () at /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libffi.so.6
 () at /usr/lib/libgjs.so.0
Title: gnome-shell crashed with SIGSEGV in g_type_check_instance_cast()
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups: adm autopilot cdrom colord dialout dip libvirt libvirtd lpadmin netdev pico plugdev sambashare sudo

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Paolo Astengo (p-astengo) wrote :
information type: Private → Public
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Apport retracing service (apport) wrote : This bug is a duplicate

Thank you for taking the time to report this crash and helping to make this software better. This particular crash has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug #1714989, so 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. Please continue to report any other bugs you may find.

tags: removed: need-amd64-retrace
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

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

Changed in gnome-shell (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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