$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu Groovy Gorilla (development branch)
Release: 20.10
updated to latest packages on groovy (apt update, apt upgrade) and rebooted. Logged in and left system unattended to make dinner, on return gnome-shell had crashed and dumped me back to login screen.
ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.10
Package: gnome-shell 3.38.0-1ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.8.0-19.20-generic 5.8.8
Uname: Linux 5.8.0-19-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: zfs zunicode zavl icp zcommon znvpair
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu47
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: skip
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Wed Sep 23 20:34:15 2020
DisplayManager: gdm3
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-shell
InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-12-02 (1391 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release amd64 (20160719)
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/gnome-shell
ProcEnviron:
LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
PATH=(custom, user)
SHELL=/bin/bash
XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
RelatedPackageVersions: mutter-common 3.38.0-1ubuntu1
Signal: 6
SourcePackage: gnome-shell
StacktraceTop:
() at /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
g_assertion_message_expr () at /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
() at /usr/lib/gnome-shell/libst-1.0.so
g_closure_invoke () at /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgobject-2.0.so.0
() at /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgobject-2.0.so.0
Title: gnome-shell crashed with SIGABRT
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to groovy on 2020-08-10 (44 days ago)
UserGroups: adm cdrom dialout dip libvirt libvirtd lpadmin lxd 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 #1867763, 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.