mutter segfaults on start-up

[Stefan Ebner]

Binary package hint: mutter

When starting up mutter it segfaults.
(happens since today: GTK3 update to 2.91.5 and mutter update to 2.91.3)
Backtrace:

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Reading symbols from /usr/bin/mutter...Reading symbols from /usr/lib/debug/usr/bin/mutter...done.
done.
(gdb) run
Starting program: /usr/bin/mutter
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
[New Thread 0xb7c57b70 (LWP 3716)]

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
_cairo_surface_get_extents (surface=0x41, extents=0xbfffe140)
    at /build/buildd/cairo-1.10.0/src/cairo-surface.c:2485
 in /build/buildd/cairo-1.10.0/src/cairo-surface.c

[Harry (harry33)]

This happens in my setup too.

If I downgrade GTK3 to version 2.9.4-0ubuntu2, mutter (2.91.3-0ubuntu1) works OK.
One thing I do not understand, though
why the old name to the package gir1.0-mutter-2.31_2.91.3-0ubuntu1.
This breaks gnome-shell from Ricotz PPA, as package gnome-shell depends on gir1.0-mutter2.91.

Anyway, it seems, the problem may also be in GTK 2.91.5-0ubuntu1.

[Harry (harry33)]

Confirming this issue.

[Christian Niemeyer (christian-niemeyer)]

Confirming this issue after updated packages on November 30th. (natty 64bit)

[Jeremy Bícha (jbicha)]

Thank you for reporting this bug to Ubuntu. 11.04 reached End of Life in 2012. See this document for currently supported Ubuntu releases: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases

I've tried recreating this bug with your release and was unable to, given the information you've provided. 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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