Bug#806177: general protection ip:7f1572272b8c sp:7ffe1d1f0ef0 error:0 in libcairo.so.2.11400.4[7f157223b000+10e000] crashes gnome-shell

[intrigeri]

Hi,

Emilio Pozuelo Monfort (Wed, 25 Nov 2015 10:53:04 +0100):
> On 25/11/15 02:59, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote:

>> I was in a preview mode (super) and closed one of the windows inthere (forgot
>> which one ;) ) which lead to the restart of the gnome-shell (on the next
>> restart I think gnome will announce that unrecoverable error, and would
>> cause to log me out). journalctl gives following limited details
>> 
>> Nov 24 20:51:50 hopa kernel: traps: gnome-shell[2446] general protection ip:7f1572272b8c sp:7ffe1d1f0ef0 error:0 in libcairo.so.2.11400.4[7f157223b000+10e000]
>> Nov 24 20:51:50 hopa polkitd(authority=local)[1606]: Unregistered Authentication Agent for unix-session:2 (system bus name :1.65, object path /org/freedesktop/PolicyKit1/AuthenticationAgent, locale en_US.UTF-8) (disco
>> Nov 24 20:51:50 hopa gnome-session[2353]: gnome-session-binary[2353]: WARNING: Application 'gnome-shell.desktop' killed by signal 11
>> Nov 24 20:51:50 hopa gnome-session-binary[2353]: WARNING: Application 'gnome-shell.desktop' killed by signal 11
>> Nov 24 20:51:51 hopa kernel: [drm:drm_mode_getconnector] [CONNECTOR:32:?]
>> Nov 24 20:51:51 hopa kernel: [drm:drm_helper_probe_single_connector_modes_merge_bits] [CONNECTOR:32:eDP-1]
>> Nov 24 20:51:51 hopa kernel: [drm:intel_dp_detect] [CONNECTOR:32:eDP-1]
>> 
>> sorry -- know that not much of detail... but there is no even libcairo2-dbg, so
>> not sure what else information I could harvest even if attach in gdb to
>> gnome-shell to monitor for future possible similar cases.

> Actually, there is...

> libcairo2-dbg |   1.14.4-1 | http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ testing/main amd64
> Packages

> It'd be very useful if you manage to reproduce this and get a backtrace.

Thank you for reporting this bug to Debian. Here's one last ping
before we close this bug due to lack of actionable information.

Can you still reproduce it with Debian 10 'Buster'?
If you can, please provide the information Emilio requested :)

Cheers,
-- 
intrigeri