Bug 1041939

Summary: Gnome-shell occasionally SEGFAULTs when switched to ACTIVITIES screen
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Mykola Dvornik <mykola.dvornik>
Component: gnome-shellAssignee: Owen Taylor <otaylor>
Status: CLOSED EOL QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 20CC: d.capitella, fmuellner, otaylor, samkraju, walters
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Description Mykola Dvornik 2013-12-12 20:11:01 UTC
Description of problem:

Once switched to ACTIVITIES screen, Gnome-shell occasionally SEGFAULTs with the following message:

kernel: gnome-shell[1294]: segfault at 8 ip 00007f9b91fa6cd6 sp 00007fff55806f80 error 4 in libfreetype.so.6.10.2[7f9b91f51000+9e000]

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

freetype-2.5.0-4.fc20.x86_64
gnome-shell-3.10.2.1-3.fc20.x86_64

How reproducible:

Random. Typically happens right after login.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Login into gnome-shell
2. Press SUPER key like crazy
3. 

Actual results:

Gnome-shell segfaults

Expected results:

Gnome-shell runs fine

Additional info:

Comment 1 Mykola Dvornik 2013-12-26 08:55:58 UTC
Now transmission-gtk sigfaults with the following message:

kernel: transmission-gt[4493]: segfault at 60 ip 00007f28c293b925 sp 00007f28a77fc690 error 4 in transmission-gtk[7f28c28c9000+cc000]

Comment 2 Donato Capitella 2014-02-06 20:32:32 UTC
Having a similar issue. Although the segfaults are frequent but random, I think they don't necessarily happen with the activity screen:

[45417.396883] gnome-shell[1815]: segfault at 8 ip 00007fef63be4423 sp 00007fff89485590 error 4 in libgnome-shell.so[7fef63bb8000+9d000]
[45578.579584] gnome-shell[26650]: segfault at 8 ip 00007fb0fc34c42e sp 00007fffeedaf5b0 error 4 in libgnome-shell.so[7fb0fc320000+9d000]
[49054.624356] gnome-shell[27186]: segfault at 8 ip 00007f8ed71ce423 sp 00007fff6ba73340 error 4 in libgnome-shell.so[7f8ed71a2000+9d000]
[50568.224706] gnome-shell[31442]: segfault at 8 ip 00007fb851f39423 sp 00007ffff03dd7a0 error 4 in libgnome-shell.so[7fb851f0d000+9d000]
[50963.721501] gnome-shell[1177]: segfault at 8 ip 00007f197b675423 sp 00007fff15b3c610 error 4 in libgnome-shell.so[7f197b649000+9d000]
[51061.783532] gnome-shell[2025]: segfault at 8 ip 00007f0de588b423 sp 00007fff82ee01f0 error 4 in libgnome-shell.so[7f0de585f000+9d000]

Something is wrong, the system like is is barely usable :(

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