gnome-shell crashed with SIGSEGV in magazine_chain_pop_head() when trying to show gnome-shell

[Luis Cacho]

Just clicked on the Activities button when having a nautilus window open.

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: gnome-shell 3.2.2.1-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-16.28-generic-pae 3.0.17
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-16-generic-pae i686
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
ApportVersion: 1.94-0ubuntu1
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Mar 3 16:18:04 2012
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-shell
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/gnome-shell
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=es_ES:en
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=es_ES.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SegvAnalysis:
 Segfault happened at: 0xb6b6ff76 <g_slice_alloc+486>: mov (%esi),%edx
 PC (0xb6b6ff76) ok
 source "(%esi)" (0x0000000a) not located in a known VMA region (needed readable region)!
 destination "%edx" ok
SegvReason: reading NULL VMA
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: gnome-shell
StacktraceTop:
 g_slice_alloc () from /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
 g_hash_table_new_full () from /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
 ?? () from /usr/lib/libgjs.so.0
 ?? () from /usr/lib/libmozjs185.so.1.0
 ?? () from /usr/lib/libmozjs185.so.1.0
Title: gnome-shell crashed with SIGSEGV in g_slice_alloc()
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2011-10-23 (132 days ago)
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin mythtv plugdev sambashare

[Apport retracing service (apport)]

StacktraceTop:
 magazine_chain_pop_head (magazine_chunks=0x98c0e60) at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.31.18/./glib/gslice.c:532
 thread_memory_magazine1_alloc (ix=<optimized out>, tmem=<optimized out>) at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.31.18/./glib/gslice.c:835
 g_slice_alloc (mem_size=56) at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.31.18/./glib/gslice.c:994
 g_hash_table_new_full (hash_func=0xb6b45ee0 <g_str_hash>, key_equal_func=0xb6b45eb0 <g_str_equal>, key_destroy_func=0, value_destroy_func=0xb75dfdb0 <g_base_info_unref>) at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.31.18/./glib/ghash.c:689
 get_field_map (struct_info=0x9fbb950) at gi/boxed.c:308

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[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.

I apologize that we are not always to respond to bug reports promptly. Do feel free to report any other bugs you may find.