Description of problem: When in Application overlay, typing anything other than spaces results in segfault Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): gnome-shell.x86_64 0:3.2.0-2.fc16 How reproducible: click activites, start typing, crash Steps to Reproduce: 1.click Activities 2. start typing (spaces do not result in crash) 3.crash Actual results: crash dmesg reports gnome-shell[1912]: segfault at 0 ip 00007f3904daa464 sp 00007fffdb7a7ca0 error 4 in libc-2.14.90.so[7f3904d0d000+1ab000] Expected results: search works Additional info:
A full backtrace will be helpful. Did ABRT showed a crash alert? If so, you could use ABRT to submit the backtrace. If it didn't, start gnome-shell in gdb to get the backtrace. Also, please attach ~/.xsession-errors If you need any help in getting the backtrace, don't hesitate to ask. Elad Alfassa, Not a GNOME developer.
Created attachment 526217 [details] .xsession errors
Elad ABRT didn't/doesn't see the crash. I've tried the gdb using the instructions on the Gnome site but will have to do it again, later, off to work now :( Rob
This also effects me... SIGSEGV is caused by typing into Activities Window Also GIMP, Pidgin, BOINC client ABRT SIGSEGV when you type in the "additional information" field... This also effects me trying Ubuntu 11.10, Linux Mint 11 with Gnome 3...
I got this bug too. Not quite sure if I did it right but I attempted to get a gdb backtrace for the crash but every time I attached the pid to gdb, gnome-shell would freeze and not do anything until I quit gdb. Fedora 16 x64
I see this then using a alternate gnome-shell using the user theme extension and gnome-tweak-tool to select the theme.
Created attachment 532575 [details] Stacktrace of a gnome shell crash during search Input was aa in the search field in the upper right corner.
are the other people seeing this also using alternative Shell themes, as Tim Lauridsen is? -- Fedora Bugzappers volunteer triage team https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers
I had the problem right after installing F16. didn't even add any repos.
fixed with https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=663815 please provide updates! Thanks!
for me, gnome-shell crashes with and without custom theme.
I can confirm that patch in https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=663815 works!
Ooh. Fun. -- Fedora Bugzappers volunteer triage team https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers
This problem arises when there are some desktop entries that do not contain both the "Name" and "Exec" keys. I did a quick search through my installed programs by doing as follows: for file in /usr/share/applications/*.desktop; do [ $(egrep "^Name=|^Exec=" "$file" | wc -l) -ne 2 ] && echo "$file" done It showed me the faulty entries, so I just uninstalled their packages and it all went fine. I could have also edited the entries directly but I didn't mind. I hope this can be useful as a quick workaround while this bug is being fixed.
Combining with another bug that also has a bunch of duplicates *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 741964 ***