gnome-shell crashed with SIGSEGV in __GI___libc_free()

[Gene Soo]

Unkown error during startup of GNOME Daily Build.

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 17.10
Package: gnome-shell 3.24.2-0ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.10.0-20.22-generic 4.10.8
Uname: Linux 4.10.0-20-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.5-0ubuntu3
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: GNOME
Date: Wed May 17 22:14:22 2017
DisplayManager: gdm3
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-shell
GsettingsChanges: b'org.gnome.desktop.interface' b'gtk-im-module' b"'gtk-im-context-simple'"
InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-05-14 (3 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-GNOME 17.10 "Artful Aardvark" - Alpha amd64 (20170513)
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/gnome-shell
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SegvAnalysis:
 Segfault happened at: 0x7fbfefa69102 <__GI___libc_free+34>: mov -0x8(%rdi),%rax
 PC (0x7fbfefa69102) ok
 source "-0x8(%rdi)" (0xfffffffffffffff9) not located in a known VMA region (needed readable region)!
 destination "%rax" ok
SegvReason: reading unknown VMA
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: gnome-shell
StacktraceTop:
 __GI___libc_free (mem=0x1) at malloc.c:2963
 gweather_location_unref () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgweather-3.so.6
 g_boxed_free () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgobject-2.0.so.0
 ?? () from /usr/lib/libgjs.so.0
 ?? () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libjs.so.0
Title: gnome-shell crashed with SIGSEGV in __GI___libc_free()
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups: adm cdrom dip lpadmin plugdev sambashare sudo

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StacktraceTop:
 __GI___libc_free (mem=0x1) at malloc.c:2963
 g_free (mem=<optimized out>) at ../../../../glib/gmem.c:189
 gweather_location_unref (loc=0x557c205d9000) at gweather-location.c:396
 g_boxed_free (boxed_type=93991603841216, boxed=0x557c205d9000) at ../../../../gobject/gboxed.c:407
 boxed_finalize (fop=<optimized out>, obj=<optimized out>) at gi/boxed.cpp:505

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 1688209, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.