GNOME Shell randomly crashed. Again.
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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gnome-shell (Ubuntu) |
New
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Medium
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Unfortunately, this has become a daily occurrence (at least). This time, I was working in the Guake terminal (as I am almost all the time), when suddenly everything froze other than my mouse cursor. I was actually trying to highlight a some text to copy when it happened. Eventually, gnome-shell restarted itself, but it took at least 30 seconds (might have been 60? I wasn't keeping track), during which time there was no indication to the user as to what was going on.
Aside from the bug itself, this provides a terrible user experience. It also ensures that I absolutely cannot switch to Wayland until this frequent crashing is resolved, or Gnome-shell under Wayland can crash without taking down the entire desktop with it.
ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 17.10
Package: gnome-shell 3.26.0-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 4.13.0-12-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.7-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: GNOME
Date: Wed Oct 11 09:53:58 2017
DisplayManager: gdm3
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/
InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-08-03 (1164 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64 (20140722.2)
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/
SegvAnalysis:
Segfault happened at: 0x7fd57acbde56 <g_type_
PC (0x7fd57acbde56) ok
source "(%rdi)" (0x008163a2) not located in a known VMA region (needed readable region)!
destination "%rdi" ok
SegvReason: reading unknown VMA
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: gnome-shell
StacktraceTop:
g_type_
() at /usr/lib/
g_closure_invoke () at /usr/lib/
() at /usr/lib/
g_signal_
Title: gnome-shell crashed with SIGSEGV in g_type_
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to artful on 2017-09-29 (11 days ago)
UserGroups: adm cdrom dip docker kvm libvirtd lpadmin lxd plugdev sambashare sudo video www-data
StacktraceTop: ve_name_ I (type=939216323 88064) at ../../. ./../gobject/ gtype.c: 694 check_instance_ cast (type_instance= 0x8163a2, iface_type= 93921632388064) at ../../. ./../gobject/ gtype.c: 4069 gtk_embed_ window_ created_ cb (display= 0x556bd5988170, window= 0x556bdc866bc0, embed=0x556bd92 25bb0) at ../src/ shell-gtk- embed.c: 67 0x556bdd086ba0, return_value=0x0, n_param_values=2, param_values= 0x7ffcde9f3ca0, invocation_ hint=0x7ffcde9f 3c20) at ../../. ./../gobject/ gclosure. c:804 emit_unlocked_ R (node=<optimized out>, detail=0, instance= 0x556bd5988170, emission_ return= 0x0, instance_ and_params= 0x7ffcde9f3ca0) at ../../. ./../gobject/ gsignal. c:3564
type_descripti
g_type_
shell_
g_closure_invoke (closure=
signal_