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Crash when typing in the activities overview: gnome-shell assert failure: *** longjmp causes uninitialized stack frame

Bug #1269380 reported by Christian Kirbach on 2014-01-15

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #1253723: gnome-shell assert failure: *** longjmp causes uninitialized stack frame ***: /usr/bin/gnome-shell terminated. Edit Remove

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	Ubuntu GNOME	New	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Crash when typing "gedit" in the activities overview

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10
Package: gnome-shell 3.10.2.1-0ubuntu1~saucy1 [origin: LP-PPA-gnome3-team-gnome3-staging]
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.11.0-15.23-generic 3.11.10
Uname: Linux 3.11.0-15-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
ApportVersion: 2.12.5-0ubuntu2.2
Architecture: amd64
AssertionMessage: *** longjmp causes uninitialized stack frame ***: /usr/bin/gnome-shell terminated
Date: Wed Jan 15 13:05:30 2014
DisplayManager: gdm
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-shell
GsettingsChanges:
b'org.gnome.desktop.interface' b'clock-show-date' b'true'
b'org.gnome.desktop.interface' b'gtk-im-module' b"'gtk-im-context-simple'"
InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-01-08 (371 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Release amd64 (20121017.5)
MarkForUpload: True
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/gnome-shell
Signal: 6
SourcePackage: gnome-shell
StacktraceTop:
__libc_message (do_abort=do_abort@entry=2, fmt=fmt@entry=0x7f7ccf7e5f10 "*** %s ***: %s terminated\n") at ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/libc_fatal.c:199
__GI___fortify_fail (msg=<optimized out>) at fortify_fail.c:37
____longjmp_chk () at ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/x86_64/____longjmp_chk.S:100
__longjmp_chk (env=0x3b9a3e0, val=<optimized out>) at ../setjmp/longjmp.c:39
?? () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libfreetype.so.6
Title: gnome-shell assert failure: *** longjmp causes uninitialized stack frame ***: /usr/bin/gnome-shell terminated
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to saucy on 2013-09-22 (114 days ago)
UserGroups: audio bluetooth colord disk fuse games operator pulse sudo syslog users vboxusers video whoopsie wireshark
XsessionErrors:
gnome-session[2177]: WARNING: Error getting login monitor: -2
gnome-session[2177]: WARNING: Unable to find required component 'gnome-shell'
gnome-session[2177]: CRITICAL: We failed, but the fail whale is dead. Sorry....

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Christian Kirbach (christian-kirbach-e) wrote on 2014-01-15:

CrashDB.txt Edit (263 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Dependencies.txt Edit (26.4 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcEnviron.txt Edit (309 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
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Ubuntu GNOME (ug-bot) wrote on 2014-01-15: This bug is a duplicate

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 #1253723, 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.