Bug#1043329: gnome-shell crashes with SIGABRT

[Jörg Sommer]

Simon McVittie schrieb am Di 15. Aug, 11:37 (+0100):
> Control: tags -1 + moreinfo unreproducible
> 
> On Wed, 09 Aug 2023 at 10:02:00 +0200, Jörg Sommer wrote:
> >                 #7  0x00007f4c474451ed __libc_message (libc.so.6 + 0x271ed)
> >                 #8  0x00007f4c474b1a75 malloc_printerr (libc.so.6 + 0x93a75)
> >                 #9  0x00007f4c474b1c3c munmap_chunk (libc.so.6 + 0x93c3c)
> >                 #10 0x00007f4c474b61b8 __GI___libc_free (libc.so.6 + 0x981b8)
> >                 #11 0x00007f4c450e7252 n/a (libmozjs-102.so.0 + 0x8e7252)
> >                 #12 0x00007f4c450e7c06 n/a (libmozjs-102.so.0 + 0x8e7c06)
> >                 #13 0x00007f4c44e750e2 n/a (libmozjs-102.so.0 + 0x6750e2)
> 
> This looks like memory corruption. Are there any steps you can follow that
> make this crash more likely to happen?

No, I don't know how to reproduce it.

I'm fine when you close this (and the other) report.

> > Maybe the list of my extensions is helpful:
> 
> We cannot really support gnome-shell when used with third-party extensions:
> extensions have complete control over the Shell process, and extension bugs
> can easily cause a crash like this.

But an extension written in JavaScript should not be able to cause a
*memory* corruption. That's why it's JavaScript.

I've been using these extensions for months now, but I see these crashes
since two weeks or so. But I know the root cause might be somewhere in a
library, which makes it difficult to track down.


Regards Jörg

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