Gnome-shell crashes when trying to search for an application

[Kemel Zaidan aka Legendario]

I don't know why, but my gnome-shell crashes every time I try to search for an application with the keyboard, just after pressing the Meta key to call for the window view of gnome-shell.

Sometimes it restarts again, but sometimes it doesn't.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: gnome-shell 3.2.1-0ubuntu1.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-14.23-generic 3.0.9
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-14-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu4
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri Jan 6 13:19:44 2012
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release amd64 (20101007.1)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=pt_BR:pt:en
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=pt_BR.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gnome-shell
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-11-08 (58 days ago)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[sk (sreekumar-r84-live)]

The same issue is present in Ubuntu 12.04 as well

[Pekka Tiittanen (pekka-tiittanen)]

Hi,

Similar issue has been fixed earlier (https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=666756) it seems that the version 2.34.1 of librsvg had caused problems, but upgrading to 2.35.1 did not.

On my machine, I definately have only "librsvg2-common" installed and the version indeed is 2.34.1, so I'm guessing that the fix might be as simple as upgrading that package.

[Pekka Tiittanen (pekka-tiittanen)]

I'll just answer myself, it seems that 12.04 has 2.35.2, so this time this bug is probably caused by something else.

[flusi100 (flusi100)]

Same Problem here.
Application search is one of the key features of Gnome3 and doesn't work...

running full updated 11.10 on MacAir

[greymate (helmut-gildein)]

I also have this problem now since a few days on 11.10
Very annoying !

[Nathan (nathanjallen)]

I have been seeing this rarely on 11:10 and very frequently on 12.04. I didn't notice it being a problem untill recently.

[Kemel Zaidan aka Legendario (kemelzaidan)]

It realy seems to have been fixed under 11.10. Maybe we should tab it for 12.04 only.

[Jeremy Bícha (jbicha)]

The 12.04 GNOME Shell Activities search crash with Nvidia is bug 936132.

[Nathan (nathanjallen)]

It is NOT fixed yet in 11:10. I have this problem on a regular basis. It happens when I watch certian movies and they get dumped into my recently-used section. For whatever reason gnome-shell's search is unable to handle bringing these up. I fix this by clearing my ~/.local/share/recently-used.xbel

[greymate (helmut-gildein)]

I can confirm that clearing ~/.local/share/recently-used.xbel removes the problem in 11.10 temporarily. But this of course is not a long term solution....

[Pekka Tiittanen (pekka-tiittanen)]

Nvidia 295.33 seem to fix this problem. Can someone please confirm this and push 295.33 to be released.

[Pekka Tiittanen (pekka-tiittanen)]

http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=174049

[dino99 (9d9)]

EOL reached for that serie https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases

Fixed by video driver upgrade