gnome-shell crashed with SIGSEGV in g_type_check_instance_is_fundamentally_a()

[Jacek Bilski]

Computer hangs for some seconds and then I see gnome-shell crash and restart.

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
ApportVersion: 2.20.7-0ubuntu3
Architecture: amd64
CrashCounter: 1
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Tue Oct 24 16:19:28 2017
DisplayManager: gdm3
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-shell
InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-10-04 (20 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 17.10 "Artful Aardvark" - Alpha amd64 (20170926)
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/gnome-shell
SegvAnalysis:
 Segfault happened at: 0x7fe4b99e8cdf <g_type_check_instance_is_fundamentally_a+15>: mov (%rdx),%rdx
 PC (0x7fe4b99e8cdf) ok
 source "(%rdx)" (0x6372756f73657228) not located in a known VMA region (needed readable region)!
 destination "%rdx" ok
SegvReason: reading unknown VMA
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: gnome-shell
StacktraceTop:
 g_type_check_instance_is_fundamentally_a () at /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgobject-2.0.so.0
 g_value_set_object () at /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgobject-2.0.so.0
 g_object_get_property () at /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgobject-2.0.so.0
 () at /usr/lib/libgjs.so.0
 () at /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libmozjs-52.so.0
Title: gnome-shell crashed with SIGSEGV in g_type_check_instance_is_fundamentally_a()
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups: adm cdrom dip lpadmin plugdev sambashare sudo

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Thank you for taking the time to report this crash and helping to make this software better. This particular crash has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug #1723705, so 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. Please continue to report any other bugs you may find.