There was no explicit known fix. So while we can see it stopped happening after 17.04, we don't know what exactly fixed it and so can't cherry pick a fix into 16.04 right now. You will need to be using Ubuntu 17.10 or later instead.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-shell in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1749732 Title: gnome-shell crashed with SIGSEGV in malloc_consolidate() Status in gnome-shell package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Bug description: https://errors.ubuntu.com/problem/12802bbe39099d82ed789c75b8a9b2d9eca851ce --- This is: apt-cache policy gnome-shell gnome-shell: Installed: 3.18.5-0ubuntu0.3 Candidate: 3.18.5-0ubuntu0.3 Version table: on Ubuntu lsb_release -rd Description: Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS Release: 16.04 Gnome Shell will crash just about every time when doing software updates. For instance this morning when updating: Start-Date: 2018-02-15 09:04:14 Commandline: apt-get -y install postfix postfix-doc Upgrade: postfix:amd64 (3.1.0-3ubuntu0.2, 3.1.0-3ubuntu0.3), postfix-doc:amd64 (3.1.0-3ubuntu0.2, 3.1.0-3ubuntu0.3) End-Date: 2018-02-15 09:05:31 it crashed. ProblemType: Crash DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04 Package: gnome-shell 3.18.5-0ubuntu0.3 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.13.0-32.35~16.04.1-generic 4.13.13 Uname: Linux 4.13.0-32-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.15 Architecture: amd64 CrashCounter: 1 CurrentDesktop: GNOME Date: Thu Feb 15 08:56:24 2018 DisplayManager: gdm3 ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-shell InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-10-24 (1210 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64 (20140417) ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/gnome-shell ProcEnviron: PATH=(custom, user) XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set> LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash Signal: 11 SourcePackage: gnome-shell StacktraceTop: malloc_consolidate (av=av@entry=0x7f5cbb99eb20 <main_arena>) at malloc.c:4183 _int_malloc (av=av@entry=0x7f5cbb99eb20 <main_arena>, bytes=bytes@entry=32816) at malloc.c:3450 __GI___libc_malloc (bytes=32816) at malloc.c:2913 __alloc_dir (statp=0x7ffea71631b0, flags=0, close_fd=true, fd=33) at ../sysdeps/posix/opendir.c:247 opendir_tail (fd=33) at ../sysdeps/posix/opendir.c:145 Title: gnome-shell crashed with SIGSEGV in malloc_consolidate() UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) UserGroups: adm cdrom dip kvm libvirtd lpadmin netdev plugdev sambashare sudo To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-shell/+bug/1749732/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
