gnome-shell crashed with SIGSEGV in g_slice_alloc()

[Gerhard Bogner]

gnome-shell crashed a short while after login (while upgrading packages in synaptic)

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: gnome-shell 3.1.4-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-10.16-generic 3.0.4
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-10-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: amd64
CrashCounter: 1
Date: Mon Sep 5 04:00:52 2011
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-shell
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 (20100429)
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/gnome-shell
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_GB.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SegvAnalysis:
 Segfault happened at: 0x7f27cc0b7505 <g_slice_alloc+293>: mov (%rbx),%rdx
 PC (0x7f27cc0b7505) ok
 source "(%rbx)" (0x63206f6964754165) not located in a known VMA region (needed readable region)!
 destination "%rdx" ok
SegvReason: reading unknown VMA
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: gnome-shell
StacktraceTop:
 g_slice_alloc () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
 g_slice_alloc0 () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
 g_signal_emit_valist () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgobject-2.0.so.0
 g_signal_emit () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgobject-2.0.so.0
 ?? () from /usr/lib/gnome-shell/libgnome-shell.so
Title: gnome-shell crashed with SIGSEGV in g_slice_alloc()
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-08-21 (14 days ago)
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare users

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Thank you for taking the time to report this crash and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular crash has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug #840715, 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.