gnome-shell crashed with signal 5 in g_malloc0()

[nathan li]

gnome shell freezes and restarts

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 17.10
Package: gnome-shell 3.26.1-0ubuntu4
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.13.0-16.19-generic 4.13.4
Uname: Linux 4.13.0-16-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_uvm nvidia_drm nvidia_modeset nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.20.7-0ubuntu3
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Mon Oct 23 21:08:46 2017
DisplayManager: gdm3
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-shell
InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-10-19 (4 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 17.10 "Artful Aardvark" - Release amd64 (20171018)
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/gnome-shell
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_CA:en
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_CA.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
Signal: 5
SourcePackage: gnome-shell
StacktraceTop:
 g_malloc0 () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
 ?? () from /usr/lib/gnome-shell/libst-1.0.so
 _st_create_shadow_pipeline () from /usr/lib/gnome-shell/libst-1.0.so
 _st_create_shadow_pipeline_from_actor () from /usr/lib/gnome-shell/libst-1.0.so
 ?? () from /usr/lib/gnome-shell/libst-1.0.so
Title: gnome-shell crashed with signal 5 in g_malloc0()
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups: adm cdrom dip lpadmin plugdev sambashare sudo

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StacktraceTop:
 g_malloc0 (n_bytes=18446744072098939136) at ../../../../glib/gmem.c:129
 blur_pixels (pixels_in=pixels_in@entry=0x56043b9ba600 "", width_in=width_in@entry=16, height_in=height_in@entry=16, rowstride_in=rowstride_in@entry=16, blur=<optimized out>, width_out=width_out@entry=0x7ffca9726944, height_out=height_out@entry=0x7ffca9726948, rowstride_out=0x7ffca972694c) at ../src/st/st-private.c:280
 _st_create_shadow_pipeline (shadow_spec=shadow_spec@entry=0x7f166022e760, src_texture=src_texture@entry=0x560438b093e0) at ../src/st/st-private.c:372
 _st_create_shadow_pipeline_from_actor (shadow_spec=0x7f166022e760, actor=0x56043875c7c0) at ../src/st/st-private.c:434
 st_icon_update_shadow_pipeline (icon=icon@entry=0x5604370346e0) at ../src/st/st-icon.c:278

[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 1723378, 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.