Bug#959883: gnome-shell: randomly crashes: segfaults and restarts

Antonio Terceiro terceiro at debian.org
Thu May 7 14:15:18 BST 2020


On Wed, May 06, 2020 at 08:40:47PM +0100, Simon McVittie wrote:
> On Wed, 06 May 2020 at 15:21:30 -0300, Antonio Terceiro wrote:
> > The actual core dump is 19MB compresses, is it useful?
> 
> Not particularly, because I probably don't have precisely the same
> versions of libraries that you do. I might need to ask you to install
> -dbgsym packages and get a backtrace with `coredumpctl gdb` if we can't
> work out what's going on any other way.
> 
> >                 Stack trace of thread 86099:
> >                 #0  0x00007f5b6079408d __strncmp_avx2 (libc.so.6 + 0x15a08d)
> >                 #1  0x00007f5b61481f9d g_str_has_prefix (libglib-2.0.so.0 + 0x71f9d)
> >                 #2  0x00007f5b605df475 _st_theme_node_ensure_background (libst-1.0.so + 0x39475)
> >                 #3  0x00007f5b605e31a5 st_theme_node_paint_equal (libst-1.0.so + 0x3d1a5)
> >                 #4  0x00007f5b605edc73 n/a (libst-1.0.so + 0x47c73)
> >                 #5  0x00007f5b605edfc3 st_widget_style_changed (libst-1.0.so + 0x47fc3)
> 
> This looks like it could be
> <https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/issues/2709>. If so, there's
> a fix in upstream git (not uploaded to Debian yet).

ack. I discovered I can reproduce this by simply pressing Super+L ("lock
screen").

I may try the upstream fix locally to see it if helps.
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