gnome-shell crashed with SIGABRT: ERROR:../src/shell-app.c:1644:shell_app_dispose: assertion failed: (app->state == SHELL_APP_STATE_STOPPED)

[Martin Randau]

Running MATLAB 2023b with Matlab Connector installed suddenly crashed gnome-shell and returned to gdm. Has been running fine w/o the Connector but not sure it's related.

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
ApportVersion: 2.27.0-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: pass
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Fri Sep 22 10:05:51 2023
DisplayManager: gdm3
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-shell
InstallationDate: Installed on 2023-09-18 (4 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 23.10 "Mantic Minotaur" - Daily amd64 (20230918)
JournalErrors: -- No entries --
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/gnome-shell
RelatedPackageVersions: mutter-common 45.0-1ubuntu1
Signal: 6
SourcePackage: gnome-shell
StacktraceTop:
 ??? () at /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
 g_assertion_message_expr () at /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
 ??? () at /usr/lib/gnome-shell/libshell-13.so
 g_object_unref () at /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgobject-2.0.so.0
 ??? () at /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgjs.so.0
Title: gnome-shell crashed with SIGABRT in ???()
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups: adm cdrom dip lpadmin plugdev sudo users
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[Apport retracing service (apport)]

StacktraceTop:
 __pthread_kill_implementation (no_tid=0, signo=6, threadid=<optimized out>) at ./nptl/pthread_kill.c:44
 __pthread_kill_internal (signo=6, threadid=<optimized out>) at ./nptl/pthread_kill.c:78
 __GI___pthread_kill (threadid=<optimized out>, signo=signo@entry=6) at ./nptl/pthread_kill.c:89
 __GI_raise (sig=sig@entry=6) at ../sysdeps/posix/raise.c:26
 __GI_abort () at ./stdlib/abort.c:79

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

I just hit this on logout in Oracular. Prior to the crash I had been toggling the tiling extension and stress testing tiling using Google Chrome (as is also mentioned in https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/issues/7045).