The repro steps aren't as exact as I'd like, since I found this on a live machine with long history of rough usage (including wiping /var by accident, and restoring from there), so the steps are a bit difficult to isolate.
I'll try refining the steps as needed in a VM. -- 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/1844354 Title: Starting indicator-multiload crashes gnome-shell Status in gnome-shell package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: ## Steps to reproduce ## 1. On bionic, apt install -y indicator-multiload 2. Run indicator-multiload lsb_release -d: Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS gnome-shell version: 3.28.4-0ubuntu18.04.1 indicator-multiload version: 0.4-0ubuntu5 ## Actual result ## Whole desktop crashes. gnome-shell dies with SIGABRT, logging this assertion failure: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-shell/+bug/1787512 ## Expected result ## An applet appears, showing CPU/RAM load graphs. If not that -- an error is reported. If not that -- gnome-shell continues to work, rather than crashing and destroying everything unsaved I've been working on. The desktop should not crash because of one shitty program. Especially so if that program puts itself into ~/.config/autostart -- effectively rendering the OS dead to a simpleton user. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-shell/+bug/1844354/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
