I'm happy to help. I've applied the patch from the gnome bug to a local package build. Haven't seen the crash since but only been a day or so (was crashing on the order of once a week prior)
-- 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/1714542 Title: gnome-shell crashed with SIGSEGV in st_theme_node_reduce_border_radius() from st_theme_node_paint_borders() from st_theme_node_paint() Status in GNOME Shell: Confirmed Status in gnome-shell package in Ubuntu: In Progress Bug description: https://errors.ubuntu.com/problem/23d376488259ea5f9fa6fb9843956cb6464f56e8 --- As of an upgrade to 3.25.91 (last session that did not exhibit this behavior was a 3.24.x session), I've experienced several crashes of the shell in the overview. journalctl shows the following output at the time of the crash: Sep 01 08:14:41 spiny org.gnome.Shell.desktop[8792]: Window manager warning: Overwriting existing binding of keysym ffb5 with keysym ffb5 (keycode 54). Sep 01 08:14:41 spiny gnome-shell[8506]: meta_renderer_native_release_onscreen: assertion 'onscreen_native->gbm.next_fb_id == 0' failed Sep 01 08:14:41 spiny gnome-shell[8506]: _cogl_onscreen_free: assertion 'onscreen->winsys == ((void *)0)' failed Sep 01 08:14:41 spiny kernel: gnome-shell[8506]: segfault at 1a0 ip 00007fc6008dd296 sp 00007fff2df360f0 error 4 in libmutter-1.so.0.0.0[7fc6007f9000+13e000] Sep 01 08:14:41 spiny org.gnome.Shell.desktop[8506]: (EE) Sep 01 08:14:41 spiny org.gnome.Shell.desktop[8506]: Fatal server error: Sep 01 08:14:41 spiny org.gnome.Shell.desktop[8506]: (EE) failed to read Wayland events: Connection reset by peer Sep 01 08:14:41 spiny org.gnome.Shell.desktop[8506]: (EE) Sep 01 08:14:41 spiny gnome-session[8488]: gnome-session-binary[8488]: WARNING: Application 'org.gnome.Shell.desktop' killed by signal 11 Sep 01 08:14:41 spiny gnome-session-binary[8488]: Unrecoverable failure in required component org.gnome.Shell.desktop Sep 01 08:14:41 spiny gnome-session-binary[8488]: WARNING: Application 'org.gnome.Shell.desktop' killed by signal 11 Sep 01 08:14:41 spiny polkitd(authority=local)[1424]: Unregistered Authentication Agent for unix-session:c3 (system bus name :1.868, object path /org/freedesktop/PolicyKit1/AuthenticationAgent, locale en_US.UTF-8) (disco Sep 01 08:14:41 spiny gsd-media-keys[8610]: gsd-media-keys: Fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server :1024. Sep 01 08:14:41 spiny gsd-keyboard[8607]: gsd-keyboard: Fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server :1024. Sep 01 08:14:41 spiny gsd-clipboard[8596]: gsd-clipboard: Fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server :1024. Sep 01 08:14:41 spiny gsd-power[8613]: gsd-power: Fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server :1024. Sep 01 08:14:41 spiny gsd-color[8599]: gsd-color: Fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server :1024. Sep 01 08:14:41 spiny org.a11y.atspi.Registry[8529]: XIO: fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server ":1024" Sep 01 08:14:41 spiny org.a11y.atspi.Registry[8529]: after 21 requests (21 known processed) with 0 events remaining. Sep 01 08:14:41 spiny gdm-launch-environment][8400]: pam_unix(gdm-launch-environment:session): session closed for user gdm Sep 01 08:14:41 spiny systemd-logind[1376]: Removed session c3. Sep 01 08:14:41 spiny systemd[1]: Stopping User Manager for UID 121... Sep 01 08:14:41 spiny systemd[8432]: Stopping Accessibility services bus... Sep 01 08:14:41 spiny systemd[8432]: Stopping Sound Service... Sep 01 08:14:41 spiny systemd[8432]: Stopped target Default. Sep 01 08:14:41 spiny systemd[8432]: Stopping D-Bus User Message Bus... Sep 01 08:14:41 spiny systemd[8432]: Stopping sandboxed app permission store... Sep 01 08:14:41 spiny systemd[8432]: Stopped sandboxed app permission store. Sep 01 08:14:41 spiny systemd[8432]: Stopped D-Bus User Message Bus. Sep 01 08:14:41 spiny systemd[8432]: Stopped Accessibility services bus. Sep 01 08:14:41 spiny systemd[8432]: Stopped Sound Service. Sep 01 08:14:41 spiny systemd[8432]: Stopped target Basic System. Sep 01 08:14:41 spiny systemd[8432]: Stopped target Paths. Sep 01 08:14:41 spiny systemd[8432]: Stopped target Timers. Sep 01 08:14:41 spiny systemd[8432]: Stopped target Sockets. Sep 01 08:14:41 spiny systemd[8432]: Closed D-Bus User Message Bus Socket. Sep 01 08:14:41 spiny systemd[8432]: Closed Sound System. Sep 01 08:14:41 spiny systemd[8432]: Reached target Shutdown. Sep 01 08:14:41 spiny systemd[8432]: Starting Exit the Session... Sep 01 08:14:41 spiny systemd[8432]: Received SIGRTMIN+24 from PID 8854 (kill). Sep 01 08:14:41 spiny systemd[1]: Stopped User Manager for UID 121. Sep 01 08:14:41 spiny systemd[1]: Removed slice User Slice of gdm. ProblemType: Crash DistroRelease: Ubuntu 17.10 Package: gnome-shell 3.25.91-0ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.12.0-12.13-generic 4.12.8 Uname: Linux 4.12.0-12-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.20.7-0ubuntu1 Architecture: amd64 CurrentDesktop: GNOME Date: Fri Sep 1 08:13:58 2017 DisplayManager: gdm3 EcryptfsInUse: Yes ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-shell InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-08-21 (742 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-GNOME 15.10 "Wily Werewolf" - Alpha amd64 (20150819) ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/gnome-shell ProcEnviron: PATH=(custom, no user) XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set> LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SegvAnalysis: Segfault happened at: 0x7f36d97a3a80: mov 0x80(%rdi),%eax PC (0x7f36d97a3a80) ok source "0x80(%rdi)" (0x00000080) not located in a known VMA region (needed readable region)! destination "%eax" ok SegvReason: reading NULL VMA Signal: 11 SourcePackage: gnome-shell StacktraceTop: () at /usr/lib/gnome-shell/libst-1.0.so () at /usr/lib/gnome-shell/libst-1.0.so st_theme_node_paint () at /usr/lib/gnome-shell/libst-1.0.so st_widget_paint_background () at /usr/lib/gnome-shell/libst-1.0.so () at /usr/lib/gnome-shell/libst-1.0.so Title: gnome-shell crashed with SIGSEGV UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) UserGroups: adm cdrom dip docker input lpadmin lxd plugdev sambashare sudo systemd-journal wireshark To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/gnome-shell/+bug/1714542/+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