GNOME-Shell crashes at logon after launching first application

[Jayson Rowe]

Basically what happens is one of two things. Scenario 1: GNOME logs in fine, and sits at the desktop. The first application I open triggers a crash of Shell, and everything is hunky-dory after that. Scenario 2: GNOME logs in fine, when I open applications I notice that the "X" on my window close button is black instead of white. If I restart shell (by using alt+f2 and then r), everything is hunky-dory after that.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04
Package: gnome-shell 3.8.1-0ubuntu1~raring1.2 [origin: LP-PPA-gnome3-team-gnome3]
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-19.30-generic 3.8.8
Uname: Linux 3.8.0-19-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.9.2-0ubuntu8
Architecture: amd64
CrashDB: ubuntu
Date: Mon May 6 23:27:57 2013
DisplayManager: gdm
GsettingsChanges:
 b'org.gnome.desktop.interface' b'clock-format' b"'12h'"
 b'org.gnome.desktop.interface' b'font-name' b"'Ubuntu 11'"
InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-05-06 (1 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-GNOME 13.04 "Raring Ringtail" - Release amd64 (20130424)
MarkForUpload: True
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gnome-shell
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Jeremy Bícha (jbicha)]

Thank you for reporting this bug to Ubuntu. I apologize that we are not always to respond to bug reports promptly. Ubuntu 13.04 reached End of Life in 2014. 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.

Do feel free to report any other bugs you may find.