gnome-shell crashes with segfault on libcogl.so.9.1.0

[Ingo Bruell]

gnome-shell crashes with updates from yesterday (14-04-2012) with only log information in /var/log/syslog:

Apr 15 12:42:46 bruelldb kernel: [ 355.499537] gnome-shell[8606]: segfault at 50 ip 00007f6eda80db05 sp 00007fffa024f298 error 4 in libcogl.so.9.1.0[7f6eda7c2000+83000]
Apr 15 12:43:01 bruelldb CRON[8819]: (root) CMD (/home/hts/bin/check_recording.sh && /usr/bin/checklogin.sh && /sbin/poweroff >/dev/null 2>&1)
Apr 15 12:43:07 bruelldb gnome-session[8507]: WARNING: Application 'gnome-shell.desktop' killed by signal
Apr 15 12:43:08 bruelldb blueman-mechanism: Exiting
Apr 15 12:43:08 bruelldb kernel: [ 377.355957] gnome-shell[8868]: segfault at 50 ip 00007f12c2a0fb05 sp 00007fff0750bdf8 error 4 in libcogl.so.9.1.0[7f12c29c4000+83000]
Apr 15 12:43:09 bruelldb gnome-session[8507]: WARNING: Application 'gnome-shell.desktop' killed by signal
Apr 15 12:43:09 bruelldb gnome-session[8507]: WARNING: App 'gnome-shell.desktop' respawning too quickly
Apr 15 12:43:09 bruelldb gnome-session[8507]: CRITICAL: We failed, but the fail whale is dead. Sorry....

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[daigoro (daigorocub)]

Is it solved for any other version of libcogl? Mine is libcogl.so.9.1.0.

[Jeremy Bícha (jbicha)]

Thank you for reporting this bug to Ubuntu. Ubuntu 12.04 LTS reached End of Life in April. See this document for currently supported Ubuntu releases: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases

Please upgrade to Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and re-test. If the bug is still reproducible, increase the verbosity of the steps to recreate it so we can try again.

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