Cinnamon crash after mesa update

[Marcus Habermehl]

After upgrading mesa from 17.0.7-0ubuntu0.16.04.2 to 17.2.4-0ubuntu1~16.04.2 Cinnamon crashes on startup and the fallback mate-panel starts. After downgrading mesa, Cinnamon works again.

I doesn’t get any error messages or debugging infos. With the usage of Cinnamon’s source code I get this with gdb:

$ gdb --args cinnamon --replace
…
(gdb) run
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
Using host libthread_db library "/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libthread_db.so.1".
[New Thread 0x7fffde9ea700 (LWP 5923)]
[New Thread 0x7fffddfb1700 (LWP 5925)]
[New Thread 0x7fffdd7b0700 (LWP 5926)]
[New Thread 0x7fffdcd5b700 (LWP 5927)]
[New Thread 0x7fffdc55a700 (LWP 5928)]
[New Thread 0x7fffdc4d9700 (LWP 5929)]
[New Thread 0x7fffdc458700 (LWP 5930)]
[New Thread 0x7fffdc3d7700 (LWP 5931)]
[New Thread 0x7fffdc356700 (LWP 5932)]
[New Thread 0x7fffdc2d5700 (LWP 5933)]
[New Thread 0x7fffaccd8700 (LWP 5937)]
[New Thread 0x7fffa7fff700 (LWP 5938)]
[New Thread 0x7fffa77fe700 (LWP 5942)]
[New Thread 0x7fffa6ffd700 (LWP 5943)]

Thread 1 "cinnamon" received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0x00007fffb2805333 in ?? ()
(gdb) bt
#0 0x00007fffb2805333 in ()
#1 0x0000555555cc39f0 in ()
#2 0x0000555557752530 in ()
#3 0x3f8000003f800000 in ()
#4 0x3f8000003f800000 in ()
#5 0x0000000000000000 in ()
(gdb) list
249 Display *dpy;
250 Window root_window;
251 Screen *screen;
252
253 dpy = XOpenDisplay(0);
254 root_window = XRootWindow(dpy, 0);
255 XSelectInput(dpy, root_window, KeyReleaseMask);
256 screen = DefaultScreenOfDisplay(dpy);
257 XWarpPointer(dpy, None, root_window, 0, 0, 0, 0, WidthOfScreen(screen)/2, HeightOfScreen(screen)/2);
258 XFlush(dpy);
(gdb) quit

$ inxi -F
System: Host: deimos Kernel: 4.10.0-42-generic x86_64 (64 bit)
           Desktop: Cinnamon 3.6.7 Distro: Linux Mint 18.3 Sylvia
Machine: Mobo: ECS model: A740GM-M v: 7.0
           Bios: American Megatrends v: 080014 date: 10/26/2009
CPU: Dual core AMD Athlon II X2 240 (-MCP-) cache: 2048 KB
           clock speeds: max: 2800 MHz 1: 2100 MHz 2: 1600 MHz
Graphics: Card: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] RS740 [Radeon 2100]
           Display Server: X.Org 1.18.4 drivers: ati,radeon (unloaded: fbdev,vesa)
           Resolution: 1280x1024@60.02hz
           GLX Renderer: Gallium 0.4 on ATI RS740 GLX Version: 2.1 Mesa 17.0.7
Audio: Card Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA)
           driver: snd_hda_intel
           Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture v: k4.10.0-42-generic
Network: Card: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller
           driver: r8169
           IF: enp2s0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full
           mac: 00:25:11:79:dc:af
Drives: HDD Total Size: 500.1GB (15.4% used)
           ID-1: /dev/sda model: WDC_WD5000AAKS size: 500.1GB
Partition: ID-1: / size: 96G used: 72G (79%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda3
RAID: No RAID devices: /proc/mdstat, md_mod kernel module present
Sensors: System Temperatures: cpu: 28.5C mobo: N/A
           Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: N/A
Info: Processes: 202 Uptime: 6 min Memory: 1105.6/1871.8MB
           Client: Shell (bash) inxi: 2.2.35