gnome-shell crashed with SIGABRT in g_assertion_message()

[Aaron Fisher]

Not really sure what happened. I was just doing my normal stuff. Went up to the activities hot spot to switch programs and gnome-shell crashed. Sorry I can't be more detailed, I'm really an end-user and not a developer whatsoever.

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: gnome-shell 3.2.2.1-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-18.29-generic 3.2.9
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-18-generic i686
ApportVersion: 1.94.1-0ubuntu2
Architecture: i386
CrashCounter: 1
Date: Wed Mar 14 16:05:04 2012
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-shell
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/gnome-shell
Signal: 6
SourcePackage: gnome-shell
StacktraceTop:
 raise () from /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libc.so.6
 abort () from /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libc.so.6
 g_assertion_message () from /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
 g_assertion_message_expr () from /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
 ?? () from /usr/lib/gnome-shell/libgnome-shell.so
Title: gnome-shell crashed with SIGABRT in raise()
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-03-13 (0 days ago)
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare

[Apport retracing service (apport)]

StacktraceTop:
 g_assertion_message (domain=0x0, file=0x881940 "shell-app.c", line=126, func=0x881af4 "window_backed_app_get_window", message=<optimized out>) at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.31.20/./glib/gtestutils.c:1860
 g_assertion_message_expr (domain=0x0, file=0x881940 "shell-app.c", line=126, func=0x881af4 "window_backed_app_get_window", expr=0x88194c "app->running_state") at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.31.20/./glib/gtestutils.c:1871
 window_backed_app_get_window (app=<optimized out>) at shell-app.c:126
 shell_app_get_name (app=0xb663750) at shell-app.c:348
 shell_app_get_name (app=0xb663750) at shell-app.c:342

[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.

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