gnome-shell crashed with SIGSEGV in g_type_check_instance_cast() from shell_tray_icon_click()

[Muelli]

I clicked around on the top panel, e.g. the battery, the wifi, and app icons.

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
Package: gnome-shell 3.28.4-0ubuntu18.04.2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.15.0-38.41-generic 4.15.18
Uname: Linux 4.15.0-38-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.8
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Nov 5 10:25:30 2019
DisplayManager: gdm3
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-shell
InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-10-13 (752 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 17.10 "Artful Aardvark" - Beta amd64 (20171012)
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/gnome-shell
ProcEnviron: Error: [Errno 13] Permission denied: 'environ'
SegvAnalysis:
 Segfault happened at: 0x7fa6ab83c05d <g_type_check_instance_cast+77>: movzbl 0x16(%rax),%edx
 PC (0x7fa6ab83c05d) ok
 source "0x16(%rax)" (0x3f8008ec8348536a) 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
 shell_tray_icon_click () at /usr/lib/gnome-shell/libgnome-shell.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: Upgraded to bionic on 2018-06-25 (497 days ago)
UserGroups: adm cdrom dialout dip kvm libvirt lpadmin plugdev sambashare sudo

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StacktraceTop:
 g_type_check_instance_cast (type_instance=0x55f711ca5620, iface_type=94519579955744) at ../../../../gobject/gtype.c:4058
 shell_tray_icon_click (icon=0x55f7110e3bd0, event=0x55f71041f810) at ../src/shell-tray-icon.c:206
 ffi_call_unix64 () at ../src/x86/unix64.S:76
 ffi_call (cif=cif@entry=0x55f70fcb8d98, fn=<optimized out>, rvalue=<optimized out>, rvalue@entry=0x7fff2b09dae8, avalue=avalue@entry=0x7fff2b09d9d0) at ../src/x86/ffi64.c:525
 gjs_invoke_c_function (context=context@entry=0x55f70b8bba30, function=function@entry=0x55f70fcb8d80, obj=..., obj@entry=..., args=..., js_rval=..., r_value=r_value@entry=0x0) at gi/function.cpp:1088

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

You seem to have an extension '<email address hidden>' installed that might be relevant. Please uninstall that extension (don't just disable it), restart and then tell us the the crash reoccurs.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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