gnome-shell crashed with signal 5 in clutter_box_layout_allocate() from st_widget_allocate()

[Brian Murray]

I was trying to unlock my screen which took a while and then I received this crash report.

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 17.10
Package: gnome-shell 3.26.1-0ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.13.0-16.19-generic 4.13.4
Uname: Linux 4.13.0-16-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_uvm nvidia_drm nvidia_modeset nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.20.7-0ubuntu3
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: GNOME
Date: Tue Oct 17 11:18:13 2017
DisplayManager: gdm3
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-shell
InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-01-16 (1735 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 13.04 "Raring Ringtail" - Alpha amd64 (20130116)
ProcCmdline: gnome-shell --sm-client-id 10aeea5677451824be15003363904125100000082680000
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/zsh
Signal: 5
SourcePackage: gnome-shell
StacktraceTop:
 () at /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/mutter/libmutter-clutter-1.so
 () at /usr/lib/gnome-shell/libst-1.0.so
 () at /usr/lib/gnome-shell/libst-1.0.so
 () at /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/mutter/libmutter-clutter-1.so
 () at /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/mutter/libmutter-clutter-1.so
Title: gnome-shell crashed with signal 5
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups: adm autopilot cdrom dip libvirt libvirtd lpadmin lxd plugdev sambashare sbuild sudo

[Apport retracing service (apport)]

StacktraceTop:
 clutter_box_layout_allocate (layout=0x7f0fa809bb30, container=<optimized out>, box=<optimized out>, flags=CLUTTER_ABSOLUTE_ORIGIN_CHANGED) at clutter-box-layout.c:1010
 st_widget_allocate (actor=0x5634bf180650, box=<optimized out>, flags=CLUTTER_ABSOLUTE_ORIGIN_CHANGED) at ../src/st/st-widget.c:426
 st_box_layout_allocate (actor=0x5634bf180650, box=0x5634b12e3c60, flags=<optimized out>) at ../src/st/st-box-layout.c:288
 clutter_actor_allocate_internal (flags=CLUTTER_ABSOLUTE_ORIGIN_CHANGED, allocation=<optimized out>, self=0x5634bf180650) at clutter-actor.c:9973
 clutter_actor_set_animatable_property (actor=actor@entry=0x5634bf180650, prop_id=<optimized out>, value=value@entry=0x7ffc055ccfc0, pspec=pspec@entry=0x5634b0600d70) at clutter-actor.c:14988

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

Thank you for reporting this bug to Ubuntu.
Ubuntu 17.10 (artful) reached end-of-life on July 19, 2018.

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