gnome-shell crashed with SIGSEGV in poll()

[Muelli]

gnome-shell is really CPU hungry when run in a VirtualBox

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04
Package: gnome-shell 3.6.3.1-0ubuntu6
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-26.38-generic 3.8.13.2
Uname: Linux 3.8.0-26-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.9.2-0ubuntu8.1
Architecture: amd64
CrashCounter: 1
Date: Sun Jul 14 01:05:03 2013
Disassembly: => 0x7fe09f5865f0: Cannot access memory at address 0x7fe09f5865f0
DisplayManager: gdm
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-shell
GsettingsChanges:

InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-06-25 (18 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 13.04 "Raring Ringtail" - Release amd64 (20130424)
MarkForUpload: True
ProcCmdline: gnome-shell --mode=gdm
SegvAnalysis:
 Segfault happened at: 0x7fe09f5865f0: Cannot access memory at address 0x7fe09f5865f0
 PC (0x7fe09f5865f0) in non-executable VMA region: 0x7fe09f54a000-0x7fe09f749000 ---p /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/swrast_dri.so
SegvReason: executing non-writable VMA /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/swrast_dri.so
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: gnome-shell
StacktraceTop:
 poll () at ../sysdeps/unix/syscall-template.S:81
 g_main_context_poll (n_fds=10, fds=0x40a1920, timeout=1238, context=0x2618a10, priority=<optimized out>) at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.36.0/./glib/gmain.c:3995
 g_main_context_iterate (context=0x2618a10, block=block@entry=1, dispatch=dispatch@entry=1, self=<optimized out>) at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.36.0/./glib/gmain.c:3696
 g_main_loop_run (loop=0x261c280) at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.36.0/./glib/gmain.c:3895
 meta_run () from /usr/lib/libmutter.so.0
Title: gnome-shell crashed with SIGSEGV in poll()
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups:

[Apport retracing service (apport)]

StacktraceTop:
 poll () at ../sysdeps/unix/syscall-template.S:81
 g_main_context_poll (n_fds=10, fds=0x40a1920, timeout=1238, context=0x2618a10, priority=<optimized out>) at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.36.0/./glib/gmain.c:3995
 g_main_context_iterate (context=0x2618a10, block=block@entry=1, dispatch=dispatch@entry=1, self=<optimized out>) at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.36.0/./glib/gmain.c:3696
 g_main_loop_run (loop=0x261c280) at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.36.0/./glib/gmain.c:3895
 meta_run () at core/main.c:545

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[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.