gnome-shell crashed with SIGSEGV in init_config_from_preferred_mode()

[m0rtal]

just crashed

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 15.10
Package: gnome-shell 3.16.3-1ubuntu6
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.2.0-14.16-generic 4.2.2
Uname: Linux 4.2.0-14-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.19-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: GNOME
Date: Tue Oct 6 23:17:20 2015
DisplayManager: gdm
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-shell
GsettingsChanges: b'org.gnome.desktop.interface' b'gtk-im-module' b"'gtk-im-context-simple'"
InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-03-20 (200 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-GNOME 14.10 "Utopic Unicorn" - Release amd64 (20141022.1)
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/gnome-shell
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=ru_RU.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SegvAnalysis:
 Segfault happened at: 0x7fe10d9c3442 <meta_monitor_config_make_default+642>: mov 0x10(%rdi),%r9d
 PC (0x7fe10d9c3442) ok
 source "0x10(%rdi)" (0x00000010) not located in a known VMA region (needed readable region)!
 destination "%r9d" ok
SegvReason: reading NULL VMA
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: gnome-shell
StacktraceTop:
 meta_monitor_config_make_default () from /usr/lib/libmutter.so.0
 meta_monitor_manager_xrandr_handle_xevent () from /usr/lib/libmutter.so.0
 ?? () from /usr/lib/libmutter.so.0
 g_main_context_dispatch () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
 ?? () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
Title: gnome-shell crashed with SIGSEGV in meta_monitor_config_make_default()
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups: adm cdrom dip lpadmin plugdev sambashare sudo

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StacktraceTop:
 init_config_from_preferred_mode (output=0x5136e90, config=0x6356260) at backends/meta-monitor-config.c:1104
 make_linear_config (self=<optimized out>, max_width=<optimized out>, max_height=<optimized out>, config=0x58e4680, n_outputs=2, outputs=0x5136e90) at backends/meta-monitor-config.c:1182
 make_default_config (use_stored_config=<optimized out>, max_height=<optimized out>, max_width=<optimized out>, n_outputs=<optimized out>, outputs=0x5136e90, self=0x3bf2120) at backends/meta-monitor-config.c:1296
 meta_monitor_config_make_default (self=0x3bf2120, manager=0x26602a0) at backends/meta-monitor-config.c:1381
 meta_monitor_manager_on_hotplug (manager=<optimized out>) at backends/meta-monitor-manager.c:1286

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

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