gnome-shell crashed with SIGSEGV in g_main_context_dispatch()

Bug #965611 reported by Bram Smulders
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Bug Description

My computer became unresponsive while I was using the update-manager to install some updates for 12.04. When I pointed my mouse to the top left corner of the screen to reveal the Activities, gnome shell crashed.

bram@bram-desktop:~$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu precise (development branch)
Release: 12.04

bram@bram-desktop:~$ apt-cache policy gnome-shell
gnome-shell:
  Installed: 3.3.92-0ubuntu1
  Candidate: 3.3.92-0ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 3.3.92-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise/universe amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: gnome-shell 3.3.92-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-20.32-generic 3.2.12
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-20-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 1.95-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon Mar 26 21:08:52 2012
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-shell
InstallationMedia:

ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/gnome-shell
SegvReason: reading unknown VMA
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: gnome-shell
Title: gnome-shell crashed with SIGSEGV in g_main_context_dispatch()
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-03-05 (21 days ago)
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare

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Bram Smulders (bramsmulders) wrote :
visibility: private → public
visibility: public → private
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Apport retracing service (apport) wrote : This bug is a duplicate

Thank you for taking the time to report this crash and helping to make this software better. This particular crash has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug #962298, so is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Please continue to report any other bugs you may find.

visibility: private → public
visibility: private → public
tags: removed: need-amd64-retrace
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