general protection in libgobject-2.0.so.0.5400.1

[David R. Hedges]

Shortly (<=10s) after connecting my [Android] phone via USB, and attempting to type in Thunderbird, my screen froze for roughly two minutes (no input apparently accepted or display updates), and then kicked me out to log in to a new session. (I was also able to ssh into the system while the UI was hung.) The general protection error appeared in dmesg and syslog at [apparently] the time of the UI lock-up.

syslog excerpt:

Dec 7 20:50:30 sydney kernel: [1144124.082478] usb 1-1.6: new high-speed USB device number 10 using ehci-pci
[...]
Dec 7 20:50:32 sydney gnome-shell[2461]: invalid cast from 'GTask' to 'GSimpleAsyncResult'
Dec 7 20:50:32 sydney gnome-shell[2461]: g_simple_async_result_propagate_error: assertion 'G_IS_SIMPLE_ASYNC_RESULT (simple)' failed
[...]
Dec 7 20:50:33 sydney gnome-software[2641]: State change on user/*/*/shell-extension/ubuntu-dock_ubuntu.com/* from installed to available is not OK
[...]
Dec 7 20:50:33 sydney gnome-software[2641]: State change on user/*/extensions-web/shell-extension/workspace-indicator_gnome-shell-extensions.gcampax.github.com/* from installed to available is not OK
[...]
Dec 7 20:50:34 sydney gnome-shell[2461]: [AppIndicatorSupport-DEBUG] Reload detected, destroying old watchdog
[...]
Dec 7 20:50:41 sydney kernel: [1144135.017950] traps: gnome-shell[2461] general protection ip:7fad24be0e0d sp:7ffee4e0b4c0 error:0 in libgobject-2.0.so.0.5400.1[7fad24bab000+52000]
[...]
Dec 7 20:50:41 sydney systemd[1]: Starting Location Lookup Service...
Dec 7 20:50:41 sydney kernel: [1144135.017950] traps: gnome-shell[2461] general protection ip:7fad24be0e0d sp:7ffee4e0b4c0 error:0 in libgobject-2.0.so.0.5400.1[7fad24bab000+52000]
Dec 7 20:50:41 sydney dbus[939]: [system] Successfully activated service 'org.freedesktop.GeoClue2'
Dec 7 20:50:41 sydney systemd[1]: Started Location Lookup Service.
Dec 7 20:52:00 sydney systemd[1]: Started Session 379 of user david.
Dec 7 20:53:17 sydney gedit[511]: Error reading events from display: Broken pipe
Dec 7 20:53:17 sydney tilix[4244]: Error reading events from display: Broken pipe
Dec 7 20:53:17 sydney update-notifier[2795]: Error reading events from display: Broken pipe
Dec 7 20:53:17 sydney gnome-terminal-[2770]: Error reading events from display: Connection reset by peer
Dec 7 20:53:17 sydney org.gnome.Shell.desktop[2461]: (EE)
Dec 7 20:53:17 sydney org.gnome.Shell.desktop[2461]: Fatal server error:
Dec 7 20:53:17 sydney gnome-session[2430]: gnome-session-binary[2430]: WARNING: Application 'org.gnome.Shell.desktop' killed by signal 11
Dec 7 20:53:17 sydney gnome-session-binary[2430]: WARNING: Application 'org.gnome.Shell.desktop' killed by signal 11
Dec 7 20:53:17 sydney gnome-session-binary[2430]: Unrecoverable failure in required component org.gnome.Shell.desktop
Dec 7 20:53:17 sydney org.gnome.Shell.desktop[2461]: (EE) failed to read Wayland events: Connection reset by peer
Dec 7 20:53:17 sydney org.gnome.Shell.desktop[2461]: (EE)
Dec 7 20:53:17 sydney gsd-rfkill[2517]: g_object_notify: object class 'CcRfkillGlib' has no property named 'kernel-noinput'
Dec 7 20:53:17 sydney kernel: [1144291.141669] rfkill: input handler enabled

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 17.10
Package: libglib2.0-0 2.54.1-1ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.13.0-17.20-generic 4.13.8
Uname: Linux 4.13.0-17-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.7-0ubuntu3.5
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Thu Dec 7 20:58:23 2017
InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-11-29 (1104 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.10 "Utopic Unicorn" - Release amd64 (20141022.1)
SourcePackage: glib2.0
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to artful on 2017-10-21 (47 days ago)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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