Time has passed, and that issue is no more seen nowadays. Let say it was
a transitional problem with the continuous update schedule moving to the
final gnome 3.22 version.
** Changed in: glibc (Ubuntu)
Status: Incomplete => Invalid
** Changed in: gnome-shell (Ubuntu)
Status: Incompl
If a program has crashed in malloc then it's already too late to debug.
Unfortunately heap corruption has a delayed effect so even a perfect
backtrace of such a crash won't tell you exactly where the corruption
originated. You would need to use tooling such as Valgrind to debug the
source of the co