gdm-session-worker crashed with SIGABRT - "assertion failed: (manager->priv->accounts_proxy != NULL)" in load_users()

[Ignatius de Villiers]

I am a noob -- forgive me

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 17.10
Package: gdm3 3.26.1-3ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.13.0-16.19-lowlatency 4.13.4
Uname: Linux 4.13.0-16-lowlatency x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_uvm nvidia_drm nvidia_modeset nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.20.7-0ubuntu3
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Oct 24 14:08:56 2017
ExecutablePath: /usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-session-worker
InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-09-26 (28 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 17.04 "Zesty Zapus" - Release amd64 (20170412)
ProcCmdline: gdm-session-worker\ [pam/gdm-launch-environment]
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_ZA.UTF-8
 LANGUAGE=en_ZA:en
 PATH=(custom, no user)
Signal: 6
SourcePackage: gdm3
StacktraceTop:
 g_assertion_message () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
 g_assertion_message_expr () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
 ?? () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libaccountsservice.so.0
 g_main_context_dispatch () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
 ?? () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
Title: gdm-session-worker crashed with SIGABRT in g_assertion_message()
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to artful on 2017-10-24 (0 days ago)
UserGroups:

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StacktraceTop:
 g_assertion_message (domain=domain@entry=0x7fa4b20fd6ba "AccountsService", file=file@entry=0x7fa4b20fe3b2 "act-user-manager.c", line=line@entry=2566, func=func@entry=0x7fa4b2100bd8 <__func__.28799> "load_users", message=message@entry=0x7fa4a00094e0 "assertion failed: (manager->priv->accounts_proxy != NULL)") at ../../../../glib/gtestutils.c:2436
 g_assertion_message_expr (domain=domain@entry=0x7fa4b20fd6ba "AccountsService", file=file@entry=0x7fa4b20fe3b2 "act-user-manager.c", line=line@entry=2566, func=func@entry=0x7fa4b2100bd8 <__func__.28799> "load_users", expr=expr@entry=0x7fa4b20ff590 "manager->priv->accounts_proxy != NULL") at ../../../../glib/gtestutils.c:2459
 load_users (manager=<optimized out>) at act-user-manager.c:2566
 load_idle (manager=<optimized out>) at act-user-manager.c:2617
 g_main_dispatch (context=0x55e56c47c2c0) at ../../../../glib/gmain.c:3148

[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 1693992, 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.