gnome-shell crashed with SIGSEGV in js::jit::AutoWritableJitCode::AutoWritableJitCode()

[Ryan Eric Johnson]

System slowed down unexpectedly.

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 x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.7-0ubuntu3
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: GNOME-Greeter:GNOME
Date: Fri Oct 20 21:39:54 2017
DisplayManager: gdm3
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-shell
GsettingsChanges:

InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-06-29 (114 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 16.04.2 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release amd64 (20170215.2)
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/gnome-shell
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_CA:en
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_CA.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/false
SegvAnalysis:
 Segfault happened at: 0x7f32c050535d: movl $0x0,0x0
 PC (0x7f32c050535d) ok
 source "$0x0" ok
 destination "0x0" (0x00000000) not located in a known VMA region (needed writable region)!
SegvReason: writing NULL VMA
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: gnome-shell
StacktraceTop:
 ?? () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libmozjs-52.so.0
 ?? () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libmozjs-52.so.0
 ?? () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libmozjs-52.so.0
 ?? () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libmozjs-52.so.0
 ?? () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libmozjs-52.so.0
Title: gnome-shell crashed with SIGSEGV
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to artful on 2017-10-19 (1 days ago)
UserGroups:

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StacktraceTop:
 js::jit::AutoWritableJitCode::AutoWritableJitCode (size=2432, addr=0x3bfbc7ffcef8, rt=0x56192994aa00, this=0x7fff9da09dd0) at ./js/src/jit/JitCompartment.h:634
 js::jit::AutoWritableJitCode::AutoWritableJitCode (size=2432, addr=0x3bfbc7ffcef8, this=0x7fff9da09dd0) at ./js/src/jit/JitCompartment.h:637
 mozilla::Maybe<js::jit::AutoWritableJitCode>::emplace<unsigned char*&, unsigned long&> (this=0x7fff9da09dc8) at ./js/src/dist/include/mozilla/Maybe.h:432
 js::jit::Linker::newCode<(js::AllowGC)1> (this=this@entry=0x7fff9da0a0b0, cx=<optimized out>, kind=kind@entry=js::jit::BASELINE_CODE, hasPatchableBackedges=hasPatchableBackedges@entry=false) at ./js/src/jit/Linker.cpp:52
 js::jit::BaselineCompiler::compile (this=this@entry=0x7fff9da0a260) at ./js/src/jit/BaselineCompiler.cpp:134

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

Thank you for reporting this bug to Ubuntu.
Ubuntu 17.10 (artful) reached end-of-life on July 19, 2018.

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