In an attempt to acquire more detailed debug...
```
$ gdb --args gnome-shell --replace
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Reading symbols from gnome-shell...(no debugging symbols found)...done.
(gdb) run
Starting program: /usr/bin/gnome-shell --replace
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
(SNIP) - bunch of debug/info logs
# then it borked
(gnome-shell:5119): Clutter-WARNING **: Failed to set the markup of the actor
'ClutterText': Error on line 1: Entity did not end with a semicolon; most
likely you used an ampersand character without intending to start an entity -
escape ampersand as &
(gnome-shell:5119): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_widget_get_window: assertion
'GTK_IS_WIDGET (widget)' failed
Thread 1 "gnome-shell" received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0x00007ffff1c4c6a2 in ?? () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgdk-3.so.0
(gdb)
(gdb)
(gdb)
(gdb)
(gdb) Exception ignored in: <gdb.GdbOutputFile object at 0x7f7a8986a550>
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/share/gdb/python/gdb/__init__.py", line 43, in flush
def flush(self):
KeyboardInterrupt
```
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1580605
Title:
gnome-shell crashes often
Status in gnome-shell package in Ubuntu:
Confirmed
Bug description:
I don't have full stacktrace right now unfortunately but gnome-shell
appears to be crashing a lot for me.
I am running it with multiple monitors and it crashes with following
errors:
[58566.199387] gnome-shell[11622]: segfault at e8 ip 00007f577582c582
sp 00007ffc18448048 error 4 in
libgdk-3.so.0.1800.9[7f57757ef000+d4000]
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: gnome-shell 3.18.4-0ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-22.39-generic 4.4.8
Uname: Linux 4.4.0-22-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: zfs zunicode zcommon znvpair zavl
ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: GNOME
Date: Wed May 11 09:16:52 2016
DisplayManager: gdm3
InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-04-17 (23 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-GNOME 16.04 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Beta amd64
(20160416)
ProcEnviron:
TERM=xterm-256color
PATH=(custom, no user)
XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/zsh
SourcePackage: gnome-shell
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
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