gnome-shell crashes when indicator-multiload starts: gtk_icon_info_load_icon_finish: assertion failed: (icon_info_get_pixbuf_ready (icon_info))

[David Leonard]

Description: Ubuntu 17.10
Release: 17.10

gnome-shell 3.26.1-0ubuntu5 amd64
indicator-multiload 0.4-0ubuntu5 amd64

I logged in (gdm3/wayland), tapped Meta, started typing "load" and selected "System Load Indicator" expecting to see a system load indicator appear.

Instead, the session immediately exits and I am back at the gdm login screen.
Logging in again is then not possible (any new gnome session immediately exits) until I SSH in and delete the file $HOME/.config/autostart/indicator-multiload.desktop

Debug:

I uncommented Enable=true under [debug] in /etc/gdm3/custom.conf, logged in again, and reproduced from gnome-terminal by running "indicator-multiload". I captured the following from journalctl:

Nov 07 16:24:23 yin systemd[2271]: Started GNOME Terminal Server.
Nov 07 16:24:46 yin gnome-shell[2387]: [AppIndicatorSupport-DEBUG] Registering StatusNotifierItem :1.84/org/ayatana/NotificationItem/multiload
Nov 07 16:24:46 yin gnome-shell[2387]: gdk_pixbuf_scale_simple: assertion 'dest_height > 0' failed
Nov 07 16:24:46 yin org.gnome.Shell.desktop[2387]: **
Nov 07 16:24:46 yin org.gnome.Shell.desktop[2387]: Gtk:ERROR:/build/gtk+3.0-Th_a5U/gtk+3.0-3.22.24/./gtk/gtkicontheme.c:4258:gtk_icon_info_load_icon_finish: assertion failed: (icon_info_get_pixbuf_ready (icon_info))
Nov 07 16:24:47 yin gnome-terminal-[2827]: Error reading events from display: Connection reset by peer
Nov 07 16:24:47 yin evolution-alarm[2683]: Error reading events from display: Broken pipe
Nov 07 16:24:47 yin systemd[2271]: gnome-terminal-server.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Nov 07 16:24:47 yin systemd[2271]: gnome-terminal-server.service: Unit entered failed state.
Nov 07 16:24:47 yin systemd[2271]: gnome-terminal-server.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Nov 07 16:24:47 yin org.gnome.Shell.desktop[2387]: (EE)
Nov 07 16:24:47 yin org.gnome.Shell.desktop[2387]: Fatal server error:
Nov 07 16:24:47 yin org.gnome.Shell.desktop[2387]: (EE) failed to read Wayland events: Broken pipe
Nov 07 16:24:47 yin org.gnome.Shell.desktop[2387]: (EE)
Nov 07 16:24:47 yin polkitd(authority=local)[836]: Unregistered Authentication Agent for unix-session:6 (system bus name :1.116, object path /org/freedesktop/PolicyKit1/AuthenticationAgent, locale en_AU.UTF-8) (disconnected from bus)
Nov 07 16:24:47 yin gnome-session[2319]: gnome-session-binary[2319]: WARNING: Application 'org.gnome.Shell.desktop' killed by signal 6
Nov 07 16:24:47 yin gnome-session-binary[2319]: WARNING: Application 'org.gnome.Shell.desktop' killed by signal 6
Nov 07 16:24:47 yin gnome-session-binary[2319]: Unrecoverable failure in required component org.gnome.Shell.desktop

[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 1722599, 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.