Public bug reported: I suspect a 'mouse click' on an unexpected area, near a chromium page slider, to be the root cause of that issue: first the whole gnome-shell session has been frozen, and then got that crash. Gnome-shell reloaded itself.
ProblemType: Crash DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04 Package: gnome-shell 3.18.3-3ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-9.24-generic 4.4.3 Uname: Linux 4.4.0-9-generic x86_64 NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_uvm nvidia ApportVersion: 2.20-0ubuntu3 Architecture: amd64 CurrentDesktop: GNOME Date: Wed Mar 2 10:54:45 2016 DisplayManager: lightdm ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-shell ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/gnome-shell ProcEnviron: LANGUAGE=en_GB:en PATH=(custom, no user) XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set> LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash Signal: 5 SourcePackage: gnome-shell StacktraceTop: ?? () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgio-2.0.so.0 ?? () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgio-2.0.so.0 g_settings_get_value () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgio-2.0.so.0 g_settings_get_boolean () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgio-2.0.so.0 ffi_call_unix64 () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libffi.so.6 Title: gnome-shell crashed with signal 5 in g_settings_get_value() UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) UserGroups: adm cdrom dip lpadmin plugdev sambashare sudo XsessionLog: openConnection: connect: No such file or directory cannot connect to brltty at :0 ** Affects: gnome-shell (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: amd64 apport-crash gnome3-ppa need-amd64-retrace third-party-packages xenial ** Information type changed from Private to Public -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1552167 Title: gnome-shell crashed with signal 5 in g_settings_get_value() To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-shell/+bug/1552167/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs