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gnome-shell assert failure: * longjmp causes uninitialized stack frame *: /usr/bin/gnome-shell terminated

Bug #1286026 reported by wahab hakeem on 2014-02-28

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

After an update that requires a restart, I tried to balance between opened programs with Alt-Tab (without restarting my computer) but the gnome shell crashed and restarted.

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10
Package: gnome-shell 3.10.2.1-0ubuntu1~saucy1 [origin: LP-PPA-gnome3-team-gnome3-staging]
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.11.0-15.25-generic 3.11.10
Uname: Linux 3.11.0-15-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.12.5-0ubuntu2.2
Architecture: amd64
AssertionMessage: *** longjmp causes uninitialized stack frame ***: /usr/bin/gnome-shell terminated
CrashCounter: 1
Date: Fri Feb 28 09:26:45 2014
DisplayManager: lightdm
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-shell
GsettingsChanges:
b'org.gnome.desktop.interface' b'cursor-theme' b"'DMZ-White'"
b'org.gnome.desktop.interface' b'font-name' b"'Ubuntu 11'"
b'org.gnome.desktop.interface' b'gtk-im-module' b"'gtk-im-context-simple'"
b'org.gnome.desktop.interface' b'icon-theme' b"'oxygen'"
b'org.gnome.desktop.interface' b'text-scaling-factor' b'0.80000000000000004'
InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-04-27 (671 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release amd64 (20110427.1)
MarkForUpload: True
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/gnome-shell
Signal: 6
SourcePackage: gnome-shell
StacktraceTop:
__libc_message (do_abort=do_abort@entry=2, fmt=fmt@entry=0x7fb84a74ef10 "*** %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=0x409dbc0, 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 2013-12-18 (71 days ago)
UserGroups: admin libvirtd
XsessionLog:
Script for cjkv started at run_im.
Script for default started at run_im.
openConnection: connect: No such file or directory
cannot connect to brltty at :0

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wahab hakeem (wa-evolution) wrote on 2014-02-28:

CrashDB.txt Edit (263 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Dependencies.txt Edit (28.2 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
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Ubuntu GNOME (ug-bot) wrote on 2014-02-28: 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.