gnome-shell crashed with SIGABRT in g_assertion_message_expr()

[Aaron Lichtman]

$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu Groovy Gorilla (development branch)
Release: 20.10

$ apt-cache policy gnome-shell
gnome-shell:
  Installed: 3.36.2-1ubuntu1
  Candidate: 3.36.2-1ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 3.36.2-1ubuntu1 500
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu groovy/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

Shell crashed, and shouldn't have.

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.10
Package: gnome-shell 3.36.2-1ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.4.0-29.33-generic 5.4.30
Uname: Linux 5.4.0-29-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu34
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: skip
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Thu May 14 18:04:58 2020
DisplayManager: gdm3
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-shell
InstallationDate: Installed on 2020-04-30 (14 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 20.04 LTS "Focal Fossa" - Release amd64 (20200423)
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/gnome-shell
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 SHELL=/usr/bin/zsh
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
RelatedPackageVersions: mutter-common 3.36.2-1ubuntu1
Signal: 6
SourcePackage: gnome-shell
StacktraceTop:
 ?? () 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/gnome-shell/libst-1.0.so
 g_closure_invoke () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgobject-2.0.so.0
 ?? () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgobject-2.0.so.0
Title: gnome-shell crashed with SIGABRT in g_assertion_message_expr()
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to groovy on 2020-05-14 (0 days ago)
UserGroups: adm cdrom dip lpadmin lxd plugdev sambashare sudo wireshark
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[Apport retracing service (apport)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this crash and helping to make this software better. This particular crash has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug #1867763, so 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. Please continue to report any other bugs you may find.

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

Ignore the above message. This bug has been reopened.

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

Looks like the issue is:

[ 542.446223] arctic gnome-shell[2610]: St:ERROR:../src/st/st-bin.c:213:st_bin_destroy: assertion failed: (priv->child == NULL)
[ 542.451694] arctic gnome-shell[2610]: Bail out! St:ERROR:../src/st/st-bin.c:213:st_bin_destroy: assertion failed: (priv->child == NULL)

Although that was from gnome-shell 3.36 so the line numbers have changed.