gnome-shell crashed with SIGSEGV in g_type_check_instance_cast()

Bug #1716901 reported by Juerg Haefliger
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Bug Description

Just doing everyday work on Artful and gnome-shell keeps crashes every couple of minutes.

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 17.10
Package: gnome-shell 3.25.91-0ubuntu4
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.12.0-12.13-generic 4.12.8
Uname: Linux 4.12.0-12-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.7-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
CrashCounter: 1
CurrentDesktop: GNOME
Date: Wed Sep 13 13:06:04 2017
DisplayManager: gdm3
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-shell
InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-05-25 (110 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-GNOME 17.04 "Zesty Zapus" - Release amd64 (20170412)
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/gnome-shell
SegvAnalysis:
 Segfault happened at: 0x7f119ab6ee32 <g_type_check_instance_cast+34>: mov (%rdi),%rbp
 PC (0x7f119ab6ee32) ok
 source "(%rdi)" (0x8000005e) not located in a known VMA region (needed readable region)!
 destination "%rbp" ok
SegvReason: reading unknown VMA
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: gnome-shell
StacktraceTop:
 g_type_check_instance_cast () at /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgobject-2.0.so.0
 st_label_set_text () at /usr/lib/gnome-shell/libst-1.0.so
 ffi_call_unix64 () at /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libffi.so.6
 ffi_call () at /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libffi.so.6
 () at /usr/lib/libgjs.so.0
Title: gnome-shell crashed with SIGSEGV in g_type_check_instance_cast()
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups: adm cdrom dip libvirt lpadmin plugdev sambashare sudo

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Juerg Haefliger (juergh) wrote :
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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 #1714989, 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.

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