gnome-shell crashed with SIGABRT

Bug #1871554 reported by Rocko
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Bug Description

gnome-shell crashes with this bug every time that:

* I am editing a file in geany
* I open the Find window (CTRL-F) and it opens on another monitor
* I type in some un-findable text in the find window and press ENTER (or click the Next button)

The system beeps to indicate that the text isn't found, but then crashes.

Note especially that the find window must be on the other monitor - if it's on the same monitor as geany, gnome-shell doesn't crash.

(Note: I originally thought that if I moved the find window to the other window and then searched, gnome-shell crashed, but I think what happens is a) I open the window, b) I move it, search for something, and it works, c) I close it and re-open it - it then opens on the other monitor and searching will crash gnome-shell.)

gnome-shell restarts, but the crash causes data loss, as most of the running applications don't reappear when it restarts.

In case it's relevant, I have a laptop screen set at 2048x1152 and an external monitor configured to be above it at 2560x1440.

This was previously reported as bug #1849249, but that bug has been marked as fixed.

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.04
Package: gnome-shell 3.36.0-2ubuntu2
Uname: Linux 5.6.2-050602-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu24
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Wed Apr 8 14:57:23 2020
DisplayManager: gdm3
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-shell
ExecutableTimestamp: 1585586945
InstallationDate: Installed on 2019-07-01 (281 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 19.10 "Eoan Ermine" - Alpha amd64 (20190606)
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/gnome-shell
ProcCwd: /home/rocko
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_AU.UTF-8
 LANGUAGE=en_AU:en
 PATH=(custom, user)
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
RelatedPackageVersions: mutter-common 3.36.0-2ubuntu1
Signal: 6
SourcePackage: gnome-shell
StacktraceTop:
 () at /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
 () at /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libmutter-6.so.0
 () at /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libmutter-6.so.0
 () at /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libmutter-6.so.0
 () at /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libmutter-6.so.0
Title: gnome-shell crashed with SIGABRT
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to focal on 2019-12-08 (121 days ago)
UserGroups: docker libvirt sudo
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Rocko (rockorequin) wrote :
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Apport retracing service (apport) wrote : This bug is a duplicate

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 #1864326, 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.

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