nautilus-desktop crashed with signal 5 in gnome_bg_create_surface()

[Surja Gain]

This crash happened just after the system booted. I had installed a bunch of themes from Github previous to that. I also have nemo 3 installed from noobslab.

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 17.10
Package: nautilus 1:3.26.0-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.13.0-16.19-generic 4.13.4
Uname: Linux 4.13.0-16-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_uvm nvidia_drm nvidia_modeset nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.20.7-0ubuntu3
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Tue Oct 24 07:12:23 2017
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/nautilus-desktop
InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-10-19 (4 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 17.10 "Artful Aardvark" - Release amd64 (20171018)
ProcCmdline: nautilus-desktop
Signal: 5
SourcePackage: nautilus
StacktraceTop:
 () at /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libX11.so.6
 () at /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libX11.so.6
 _XReply () at /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libX11.so.6
 XSync () at /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libX11.so.6
 gdk_flush () at /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgdk-3.so.0
Title: nautilus-desktop crashed with signal 5
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups: adm cdrom dip lpadmin plugdev sambashare sudo

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StacktraceTop:
 XSync (dpy=0x562f6c01c350, discard=0) at ../../src/Sync.c:44
 gdk_flush () at ././gdk/gdkdisplay.c:598
 make_root_pixmap (height=1080, width=1920, screen=0x562f6c076070) at gnome-bg.c:1255
 gnome_bg_create_surface (bg=0x562f6c92c1b0, window=0x562f6c84e4d0, width=width@entry=1920, height=height@entry=1080, root=root@entry=1) at gnome-bg.c:1145
 nautilus_desktop_background_ensure_realized (self=self@entry=0x562f6cb920e0) at ../nautilus-desktop/nautilus-desktop-background.c:331