gnome-shell crashed with SIGSEGV in __fork()

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gnome-shell crashed at session start, I can no more access gnome-shell session. Thanks for your help.

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: gnome-shell 3.2.2.1-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-17.26-generic 3.2.6
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-17-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 1.92-0ubuntu1
Architecture: i386
CrashCounter: 1
Date: Wed Feb 22 23:49:43 2012
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-shell
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Alpha i386 (20110302)
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/gnome-shell
SegvAnalysis:
 Segfault happened at: 0x461cea3 <_nv022tls+19>: mov %eax,0xc(%edx)
 PC (0x0461cea3) ok
 source "%eax" ok
 destination "0xc(%edx)" (0x0000000c) not located in a known VMA region (needed writable region)!
 Stack memory exhausted (SP below stack segment)
SegvReason: writing NULL VMA
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: gnome-shell
StacktraceTop:
 _nv022tls () from /usr/lib/nvidia-current/tls/libnvidia-tls.so.295.20
 ?? () from /usr/lib/nvidia-current/libGL.so.1
 fork () from /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0
 ?? () from /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
 g_spawn_sync () from /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
Title: gnome-shell crashed with SIGSEGV in _nv022tls()
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-02-02 (20 days ago)
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout disk lp lpadmin netdev plugdev sambashare vboxusers video

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StacktraceTop:
 ?? ()
 __fork () at ../nptl/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/pt-fork.c:26
 fork_exec_with_pipes (intermediate_child=-1612071920, working_directory=0x0, argv=0xb400b7e0, envp=0x0, close_descriptors=1, search_path=1, stdout_to_null=0, stderr_to_null=0, child_inherits_stdin=0, file_and_argv_zero=0, child_setup=0, user_data=0x0, child_pid=0x9fe9be78, standard_input=0x0, standard_output=0x0, standard_error=0x0, error=0x0) at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.31.18/./glib/gspawn.c:1220
 g_spawn_sync (working_directory=0x0, argv=0xb400b7e0, envp=0x0, flags=G_SPAWN_SEARCH_PATH, child_setup=0, user_data=0x0, standard_output=0x0, standard_error=0x0, exit_status=0x9fe9bf68, error=0x0) at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.31.18/./glib/gspawn.c:285
 g_spawn_command_line_sync (command_line=0xb4015d80 "evince-thumbnailer -s 256 'file:///home/romain/Bureau/maif-fiche-regime-ss-2012.pdf' '/tmp/.gnome_desktop_thumbnail.1TQAAW'", standard_output=0x0, standard_error=0x0, exit_status=0x9fe9bf68, error=0x0) at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.31.18/./glib/gspawn.c:722

[Jeremy Bícha (jbicha)]

Thank you for reporting this bug to Ubuntu. Ubuntu 12.04 LTS reached End of Life in April. See this document for currently supported Ubuntu releases: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases

Please upgrade to Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and re-test. If the bug is still reproducible, increase the verbosity of the steps to recreate it so we can try again.

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