gnome-shell crashed with SIGSEGV in llvm_pipeline_generic() from llvm_middle_end_linear_run()

[pheliksa]

Ubuntu 17.10 updated from 17.04. System stuck in a loop on boot (after Ubuntu logo appears).

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 17.10
Package: gnome-shell 3.26.1-0ubuntu4
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.13.0-16.19-generic 4.13.4
Uname: Linux 4.13.0-16-generic i686
ApportVersion: 2.20.7-0ubuntu3
Architecture: i386
CurrentDesktop: GNOME-Greeter:GNOME
Date: Fri Oct 20 16:18:48 2017
DisplayManager: gdm3
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-shell
GsettingsChanges:

InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-09-19 (761 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Beta i386 (20150805)
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/gnome-shell
SegvAnalysis:
 Segfault happened at: 0x9586f257: movd 0x8(%ecx,%eax,1),%xmm3
 PC (0x9586f257) ok
 source "0x8(%ecx,%eax,1)" (0x00000008) not located in a known VMA region (needed readable region)!
 destination "%xmm3" ok
SegvReason: reading NULL VMA
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: gnome-shell
StacktraceTop:
 ?? ()
 ?? () from /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/dri/r300_dri.so
 ?? () from /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/dri/r300_dri.so
 ?? () from /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/dri/r300_dri.so
 ?? () from /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/dri/r300_dri.so
Title: gnome-shell crashed with SIGSEGV
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups:

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StacktraceTop:
 ?? ()
 llvm_pipeline_generic (middle=0x0, middle@entry=0xd1d2a0, fetch_info=fetch_info@entry=0xbf9a4cfc, in_prim_info=in_prim_info@entry=0xbf9a4d0c) at ../../../../src/gallium/auxiliary/draw/draw_pt_fetch_shade_pipeline_llvm.c:388
 llvm_middle_end_linear_run (middle=0xd1d2a0, start=0, count=<optimized out>, prim_flags=0) at ../../../../src/gallium/auxiliary/draw/draw_pt_fetch_shade_pipeline_llvm.c:541
 vsplit_segment_simple_linear (vsplit=0xc37980, icount=4, istart=0, flags=0) at ../../../../src/gallium/auxiliary/draw/draw_pt_vsplit_tmp.h:226
 vsplit_run_linear (frontend=0xc37980, start=0, count=4) at ../../../../src/gallium/auxiliary/draw/draw_split_tmp.h:60

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

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