Comment 51 for bug 1812527

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Alec Larsen (aleclarsen42) wrote :

This problem also affects me with Zoom. I am also using a Dell Precision 5520 with Intel HD Graphics, and disabling animations in Tweaks / Appearance / Animations fixes the problem for me.

I arrived at this thread by Googling the last few frames in my coredump:

```
$ gdb /usr/bin/gnome-shell -c CoreDump
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Reading symbols from /usr/bin/gnome-shell...(no debugging symbols found)...done.
[New LWP 16771]
[New LWP 16775]
[New LWP 16782]
[New LWP 16777]
[New LWP 16785]
[New LWP 16792]
[New LWP 16784]
[New LWP 16788]
[New LWP 16776]
[New LWP 16786]
[New LWP 16793]
[New LWP 16787]
[New LWP 16790]
[New LWP 16783]
[New LWP 16791]
[New LWP 16779]
[New LWP 16789]
[New LWP 16794]
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
Using host libthread_db library "/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libthread_db.so.1".
Core was generated by `/usr/bin/gnome-shell'.
Program terminated with signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
#0 0x00007f8326767fe0 in meta_window_actor_is_destroyed () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libmutter-2.so.0
[Current thread is 1 (Thread 0x7f8329125ac0 (LWP 16771))]
(gdb) backtrace
#0 0x00007f8326767fe0 in meta_window_actor_is_destroyed () at /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libmutter-2.so.0
#1 0x00007f8322546dae in ffi_call_unix64 () at /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libffi.so.6
#2 0x00007f832254671f in ffi_call () at /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libffi.so.6
#3 0x00007f8327221648 in () at /usr/lib/libgjs.so.0
#4 0x00007f8327222f94 in () at /usr/lib/libgjs.so.0
#5 0x00007f831f028f6c in () at /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libmozjs-52.so.0
#6 0x00007f831f01bed7 in () at /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libmozjs-52.so.0
#7 0x00007f831f0287d6 in () at /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libmozjs-52.so.0
#8 0x00007f831f028daf in () at /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libmozjs-52.so.0
#9 0x00007f831f029089 in () at /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libmozjs-52.so.0
#10 0x00007f831ee190c9 in () at /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libmozjs-52.so.0
#11 0x000014a67c2ca3c6 in ()
#12 0x0000561eaa870a40 in ()
#13 0x00007ffea8948460 in ()
#14 0xfff9000000000000 in ()
#15 0x00007f83203bf8c0 in () at /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libmozjs-52.so.0
#16 0x00007f82fc0739a0 in ()
#17 0x000014a67c49b66b in ()
#18 0x0000000000006820 in ()
#19 0x00007f82dac1bba0 in ()
#20 0x0000000000000000 in ()
(gdb)
```

I'm happy to help debugging if any other information is needed.