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gnome-shell crashes with SIGABRT when touching stylus to screen, "assertion failed: (trap->end_sequence == 0)" in in gdk_x11_display_error_trap_pop_internal() from gdk_x11_display_error_trap_pop() from meta_x11_error_trap_pop_with_return() from meta_input_settings_x11_set_stylus_button_map()

Bug #1790992 reported by Anders Kaseorg
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Bug Description

My Thinkpad Yoga 14 20FY has a builtin stylus pen. If I touch it to the screen, gnome-shell immediately crashes, 100% reproducibly.

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.10
Package: gnome-shell 3.29.90-2ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.17.0-9.10-generic 4.17.17
Uname: Linux 4.17.0-9-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: openafs
ApportVersion: 2.20.10-0ubuntu9
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: GNOME
Date: Wed Sep 5 18:28:08 2018
DisplayManager: gdm3
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-shell
InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-02-19 (929 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-GNOME 16.04 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Alpha amd64 (20160218)
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/gnome-shell
Signal: 6
SourcePackage: gnome-shell
StacktraceTop:
 () at /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
 g_assertion_message_expr () at /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
 () at /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgdk-3.so.0
 () at /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libmutter-3.so.0
 g_closure_invoke () at /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgobject-2.0.so.0
Title: gnome-shell crashed with SIGABRT
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to cosmic on 2018-08-17 (19 days ago)
UserGroups: adm audio bumblebee cdrom dip docker libvirt libvirtd lpadmin lxd mock plugdev sambashare sbuild sudo wireshark

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Anders Kaseorg (andersk) wrote :
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Apport retracing service (apport) wrote :

StacktraceTop:
 g_assertion_message (domain=<optimized out>, file=<optimized out>, line=<optimized out>, func=0x7fdffc0cae80 <__func__.75276> "gdk_x11_display_error_trap_pop_internal", message=<optimized out>) at ../../../../glib/gtestutils.c:2574
 g_assertion_message_expr (domain=domain@entry=0x7fdffc0ac017 "Gdk", file=file@entry=0x7fdffc0ca7e0 "../../../../../gdk/x11/gdkdisplay-x11.c", line=line@entry=2870, func=func@entry=0x7fdffc0cae80 <__func__.75276> "gdk_x11_display_error_trap_pop_internal", expr=expr@entry=0x7fdffc0ca189 "trap->end_sequence == 0") at ../../../../glib/gtestutils.c:2597
 gdk_x11_display_error_trap_pop_internal (display=<optimized out>, need_code=need_code@entry=1) at ../../../../../gdk/x11/gdkdisplay-x11.c:2870
 gdk_x11_display_error_trap_pop (display=<optimized out>) at ../../../../../gdk/x11/gdkdisplay-x11.c:2982
 meta_x11_error_trap_pop_with_return (x11_display=<optimized out>) at x11/meta-x11-errors.c:61

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Changed in gnome-shell (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Medium
tags: removed: need-amd64-retrace
Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)
summary: - gnome-shell crashes with SIGABRT when touching stylus to screen
+ gnome-shell crashes with SIGABRT when touching stylus to screen, in
+ __GI_abort() from g_assertion_message() from g_assertion_message_expr()
+ from gdk_x11_display_error_trap_pop_internal() from
+ gdk_x11_display_error_trap_pop() from
+ meta_x11_error_trap_pop_with_return() from
+ meta_input_settings_x11_set_stylus_button_map()
information type: Private → Public
summary: - gnome-shell crashes with SIGABRT when touching stylus to screen, in
- __GI_abort() from g_assertion_message() from g_assertion_message_expr()
- from gdk_x11_display_error_trap_pop_internal() from
- gdk_x11_display_error_trap_pop() from
- meta_x11_error_trap_pop_with_return() from
+ gnome-shell crashes with SIGABRT when touching stylus to screen,
+ "assertion failed: (trap->end_sequence == 0)" from
meta_input_settings_x11_set_stylus_button_map()
Changed in gnome-shell (Ubuntu):
importance: Medium → High
Changed in mutter (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → High
summary: gnome-shell crashes with SIGABRT when touching stylus to screen,
- "assertion failed: (trap->end_sequence == 0)" from
+ "assertion failed: (trap->end_sequence == 0)" in in
+ gdk_x11_display_error_trap_pop_internal() from
+ gdk_x11_display_error_trap_pop() from
+ meta_x11_error_trap_pop_with_return() from
meta_input_settings_x11_set_stylus_button_map()
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Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt) wrote :

Please try logging into "Ubuntu on Wayland" and see if that works around the crash.

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Anders Kaseorg (andersk) wrote :

GNOME on Wayland works around the crash.

Based on the apport-retrace results, this is possibly a duplicate of bug 1788483.

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Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt) wrote :

Thanks. Yes let's track this in bug 1788483.

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