gnome-shell crashed with signal 5

[Dylan Borg]

apport showed up after having a failed login (tried to switch to the intel prime profile which did not work)

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 17.10
Package: gnome-shell 3.26.1-0ubuntu2
Uname: Linux 4.13.5-041305-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_uvm nvidia_drm nvidia_modeset nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.20.7-0ubuntu3
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: GNOME-Greeter:GNOME
Date: Thu Oct 12 06:48:23 2017
DisplayManager: gdm3
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-shell
GsettingsChanges:

InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-10-02 (9 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 17.10 "Artful Aardvark" - Beta amd64 (20171002)
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/gnome-shell
Signal: 5
SourcePackage: gnome-shell
StacktraceTop:
 () at /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libmutter-1.so.0
 _XIOError () at /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libX11.so.6
 _XEventsQueued () at /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libX11.so.6
 XPending () at /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libX11.so.6
 () at /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgdk-3.so.0
Title: gnome-shell crashed with signal 5
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups:

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