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Paul (sabret00the) wrote : gnome-shell crashed with SIGSEGV in g_type_check_instance_cast()

Saw some reports with the same title but they're all for previous versions.

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 17.10
Package: gnome-shell 3.25.91-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.12.0-12.13-generic 4.12.8
Uname: Linux 4.12.0-12-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_uvm nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.20.7-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Mon Sep 4 16:52:13 2017
DisplayManager: gdm3
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-shell
InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-04-21 (135 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 17.04 "Zesty Zapus" - Release amd64 (20170412)
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/gnome-shell
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
 PATH=(custom, user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SegvAnalysis:
 Segfault happened at: 0x7fd97c8e7e5d <g_type_check_instance_cast+77>: movzbl 0x16(%rax),%edx
 PC (0x7fd97c8e7e5d) ok
 source "0x16(%rax)" (0x0000eb1e) not located in a known VMA region (needed readable region)!
 destination "%edx" ok
SegvReason: reading NULL VMA
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: gnome-shell
StacktraceTop:
 g_type_check_instance_cast () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgobject-2.0.so.0
 st_label_set_text () from /usr/lib/gnome-shell/libst-1.0.so
 ffi_call_unix64 () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libffi.so.6
 ffi_call () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libffi.so.6
 ?? () from /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 lpadmin plugdev sambashare sudo