gnome-shell crashed with SIGSEGV in clutter_text_buffer_normal_insert_text()

[Alexey Rusakov]

A notification from Gwibber tried to show and at the same time I was opening Installed extensions at extensions.gnome.org. Upgrade from Oneiric to Precise beta 1, and within Precise beta 1, an upgrade frome GNOME Shell 3.2 to 3.3.90 has been done recently.

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: gnome-shell 3.3.90-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-19.30-generic 3.2.11
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-19-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 1.94.1-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
CrashCounter: 1
Date: Sun Mar 18 17:35:08 2012
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-shell
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release amd64 (20111012)
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/gnome-shell
SegvAnalysis:
 Segfault happened at: 0x7f343e5eca56: movdqu -0x80(%rsi),%xmm8
 PC (0x7f343e5eca56) ok
 source "-0x80(%rsi)" (0x00ff0ff9) not located in a known VMA region (needed readable region)!
 destination "%xmm8" ok
SegvReason: reading unknown VMA
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: gnome-shell
StacktraceTop:
 ?? () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6
 ?? () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libclutter-1.0.so.0
 clutter_text_buffer_set_text () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libclutter-1.0.so.0
 clutter_text_set_markup () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libclutter-1.0.so.0
 ffi_call_unix64 () from /usr/lib/libmozjs185.so.1.0
Title: gnome-shell crashed with SIGSEGV in clutter_text_buffer_set_text()
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-03-13 (5 days ago)
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare

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StacktraceTop:
 clutter_text_buffer_normal_insert_text (buffer=0x5f1ec00, position=0, chars=0x5d5e740 "i\323\005", n_chars=109) at /usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu/bits/string3.h:58
 clutter_text_buffer_set_text (buffer=0x5f1ec00, chars=0x5d5e740 "i\323\005", n_chars=109) at ./clutter-text-buffer.c:576
 clutter_text_set_markup_internal (str=<optimized out>, self=0x5f1fa00) at ./clutter-text.c:1123
 clutter_text_set_markup (self=0x5f1fa00, markup=<optimized out>) at ./clutter-text.c:4784
 ffi_call_unix64 () at src/x86/unix64.S:75

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[lepidas blades rompolos (lepidas)]

also affects me

[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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