gnome-shell crashed with SIGSEGV in __GI_getenv("LANGUAGE") from guess_category_value() from __dcigettext()

Bug #2036651 reported by Arvid Torbjørnsen
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This bug affects 3 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
GNOME Shell
Fix Released
Unknown
gnome-shell (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Medium
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Bug Description

Crash on startup

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 23.10
Package: gnome-shell 45.0-1ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 6.5.0-5.5-generic 6.5.0
Uname: Linux 6.5.0-5-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_modeset nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.27.0-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: unknown
CurrentDesktop: GNOME-Greeter:GNOME
Date: Tue Sep 19 22:38:53 2023
DisplayManager: gdm3
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-shell
GsettingsChanges:

InstallationDate: Installed on 2023-09-12 (7 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 23.04 "Lunar Lobster" - Release amd64 (20230418)
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/gnome-shell
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 SHELL=/bin/false
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
RelatedPackageVersions: mutter-common 45.0-1ubuntu1
SegvAnalysis:
 Segfault happened at: 0x7f706ee45e6d <__GI_getenv+77>: cmp (%rbx),%r12b
 PC (0x7f706ee45e6d) ok
 source "(%rbx)" (0x55fd90525) not located in a known VMA region (needed readable region)!
 destination "%r12b" ok
 Stack memory exhausted (SP below stack segment)
SegvReason: reading unknown VMA
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: gnome-shell
StacktraceTop:
 __GI_getenv (name=name@entry=0x7f706efc0257 "LANGUAGE") at ./stdlib/getenv.c:31
 guess_category_value (categoryname=0x7f706efa5493 <_nl_category_names+51> "LC_MESSAGES", category=5) at ./intl/dcigettext.c:1569
 __dcigettext (domainname=0x7f706f79e126 "glib20", msgid1=0x7f706f985c68 "The sockets address family to use for socket construction", msgid2=0x0, plural=0, n=0, category=5) at ./intl/dcigettext.c:647
 ?? () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgio-2.0.so.0
 g_type_class_ref () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgobject-2.0.so.0
Title: gnome-shell crashed with SIGSEGV in __GI_getenv()
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to mantic on 2023-09-18 (1 days ago)
UserGroups: N/A
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Arvid Torbjørnsen (atorbj) wrote :
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Apport retracing service (apport) wrote :

StacktraceTop:
 __GI_getenv (name=name@entry=0x7f706efc0257 "LANGUAGE") at ./stdlib/getenv.c:31
 guess_category_value (categoryname=0x7f706efa5493 <_nl_category_names+51> "LC_MESSAGES", category=5) at ./intl/dcigettext.c:1569
 __dcigettext (domainname=domainname@entry=0x7f706f79e126 "glib20", msgid1=msgid1@entry=0x7f706f985c68 "The sockets address family to use for socket construction", msgid2=msgid2@entry=0x0, plural=plural@entry=0, n=n@entry=0, category=category@entry=5) at ./intl/dcigettext.c:647
 __GI___dcgettext (domainname=domainname@entry=0x7f706f79e126 "glib20", msgid=msgid@entry=0x7f706f985c68 "The sockets address family to use for socket construction", category=category@entry=5) at ./intl/dcgettext.c:47
 g_dgettext (domain=domain@entry=0x7f706f79e126 "glib20", msgid=msgid@entry=0x7f706f985c68 "The sockets address family to use for socket construction") at ../../../glib/ggettext.c:404

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Changed in gnome-shell (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Medium
tags: removed: need-amd64-retrace
summary: - gnome-shell crashed with SIGSEGV in __GI_getenv()
+ gnome-shell crashed with SIGSEGV in __GI_getenv("LANGUAGE") from
+ guess_category_value() from __dcigettext()
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in gnome-shell (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
information type: Private → Public
Changed in gnome-shell:
status: Unknown → New
Changed in gnome-shell:
status: New → Fix Released
Changed in gnome-shell (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Fix Committed
tags: added: fixed-in-gnome-shell-46 fixed-upstream
tags: added: fixed-in-gnome-shell-46.alpha
removed: fixed-in-gnome-shell-46
Changed in gnome-shell (Ubuntu):
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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