gnome-shell crashed with SIGSEGV in g_slice_alloc() from g_slist_prepend() from g_key_file_parse_value_as_string() from g_key_file_get_string_list() from g_desktop_app_info_load_from_keyfile()

[dino99]

From time to time, gnome-shell first freeze then crash at the end of some package upgrade process; today it was with gnome-calculator upgraded to 3.23.4ubuntu1.

https://developer.gnome.org/glib/stable/glib-Memory-Slices.html

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 17.04
Package: gnome-shell 3.22.2-4ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.9.0-16.17-generic 4.9.6
Uname: Linux 4.9.0-16-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_uvm nvidia_drm nvidia_modeset nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.20.4-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: GNOME
Date: Tue Feb 7 06:18:57 2017
DisplayManager: lightdm
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-shell
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/gnome-shell
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SegvAnalysis:
 Segfault happened at: 0x7fb0f43444dc <g_slice_alloc+412>: mov (%rdx),%rcx
 PC (0x7fb0f43444dc) ok
 source "(%rdx)" (0x6f00000000) not located in a known VMA region (needed readable region)!
 destination "%rcx" ok
SegvReason: reading unknown VMA
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: gnome-shell
StacktraceTop:
 g_slice_alloc () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
 g_slist_prepend () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
 ?? () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
 g_key_file_get_string_list () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
 ?? () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgio-2.0.so.0
Title: gnome-shell crashed with SIGSEGV in g_slice_alloc()
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups: adm cdrom colord dip lpadmin nvidia-persistenced plugdev sambashare sudo users

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StacktraceTop:
 g_slice_alloc () from /tmp/apport_sandbox_4r7fXd/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
 g_slist_prepend () from /tmp/apport_sandbox_4r7fXd/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
 g_key_file_parse_value_as_string () from /tmp/apport_sandbox_4r7fXd/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
 g_key_file_get_string_list () from /tmp/apport_sandbox_4r7fXd/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
 g_desktop_app_info_load_from_keyfile () from /tmp/apport_sandbox_4r7fXd/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgio-2.0.so.0

[dino99 (9d9)]

Artful does not have that problem (fresh zesty -> Artfull dist-upgrade)