gnome-shell crashed with SIGTRAP in _XEventsQueued from XPending from gdk_check_xpending from gdk_event_source_prepare from g_main_context_prepare from g_main_context_iterate

[Marcos Nascimento]

Problems related to nVIDA 6800XT video card. The screen blinks after login, hangs, and returns to the login screen. The problem occurs with nVIDIA owner controller and also with the nouveau driver. I can only enter through recovery mode.

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 17.10
Package: gnome-shell 3.24.3-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.11.0-13.19-generic 4.11.12
Uname: Linux 4.11.0-13-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.20.6-0ubuntu5
Architecture: amd64
CrashCounter: 1
CurrentDesktop: GNOME-Greeter:GNOME
Date: Sat Aug 12 20:09:11 2017
DisplayManager: gdm3
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-shell
GsettingsChanges:

InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-08-08 (4 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 17.10 "Artful Aardvark" - Alpha amd64 (20170807)
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/gnome-shell
Signal: 5
SourcePackage: gnome-shell
StacktraceTop:
 ?? () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libX11.so.6
 ?? () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libX11.so.6
 _XEventsQueued () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libX11.so.6
 XPending () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libX11.so.6
 ?? () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgdk-3.so.0
Title: gnome-shell crashed with signal 5 in _XEventsQueued()
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups:

[Apport retracing service (apport)]

StacktraceTop:
 XPending (dpy=0x2317045d10) at ../../src/Pending.c:55
 gdk_check_xpending (display=0x23170550a0) at ././gdk/x11/gdkeventsource.c:269
 gdk_event_source_prepare (source=<optimized out>, timeout=timeout@entry=0x7ffd95d350a4) at ././gdk/x11/gdkeventsource.c:287
 g_main_context_prepare (context=context@entry=0x2316dcd240, priority=priority@entry=0x7ffd95d35130) at ../../../../glib/gmain.c:3450
 g_main_context_iterate (context=0x2316dcd240, block=block@entry=1, dispatch=dispatch@entry=1, self=<optimized out>) at ../../../../glib/gmain.c:3866

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

The error message details are:

"The program 'gnome-shell' received an X Window System error.
This probably reflects a bug in the program.
The error was 'BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)'.
  (Details: serial 918 error_code 8 r"...

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

Thank you for reporting this bug to Ubuntu.
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