Bug 644684 – Click Applications menu in Activities -> gnome-shell crashs.

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Bug 644684 - Click Applications menu in Activities -> gnome-shell crashs.


Summary:	Click Applications menu in Activities -> gnome-shell crashs.


Status:	RESOLVED OBSOLETE

Product:	gnome-shell
Classification:	Core
Component:	general
Version:	3.0.x
Hardware:	Other Linux

Importance:	Normal critical
Target Milestone:	---
Assigned To:	gnome-shell-maint
QA Contact:	gnome-shell-maint

URL:
Whiteboard:

Depends on:
Blocks:

Reported:	2011-03-14 00:29 UTC by sangu
Modified:	2013-06-14 15:18 UTC

See Also:
GNOME target:	---
GNOME version:	---

Description sangu 2011-03-14 00:29:36 UTC

$ gdb gnoem-shell coredump

Core was generated by `/usr/bin/gnome-shell'.
Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault.

+ Trace 226300

#0 __memset_x86_64
at ../sysdeps/x86_64/memset.S line 1285
#0 __memset_x86_64
at ../sysdeps/x86_64/memset.S line 1285
#1 gray_render_span
at /usr/include/bits/string3.h line 85
#2 gray_hline
at /usr/src/debug/freetype-2.4.4/src/smooth/ftgrays.c line 1286
#3 gray_sweep
at /usr/src/debug/freetype-2.4.4/src/smooth/ftgrays.c line 1386
#4 gray_convert_glyph
at /usr/src/debug/freetype-2.4.4/src/smooth/ftgrays.c line 1820
#5 ft_smooth_render_generic
at /usr/src/debug/freetype-2.4.4/src/smooth/ftsmooth.c line 292
#6 FT_Render_Glyph_Internal
at /usr/src/debug/freetype-2.4.4/src/base/ftobjs.c line 3937
#7 _render_glyph_outline
at cairo-ft-font.c line 1357
#8 _cairo_ft_scaled_glyph_init
at cairo-ft-font.c line 2269
#9 _cairo_scaled_glyph_lookup
#10 _composite_glyphs
at cairo-image-surface.c line 3967
#11 _clip_and_composite
at cairo-image-surface.c line 2316
#12 _cairo_image_surface_glyphs
at cairo-image-surface.c line 4062
#13 _cairo_surface_show_text_glyphs
at cairo-surface.c line 2640
#14 _cairo_surface_show_text_glyphs
#15 _cairo_gstate_show_text_glyphs
at cairo-gstate.c line 1981
#16 cairo_show_glyphs
at cairo.c line 3509
#17 cairo_show_glyphs
at cairo.c line 3489
#18 cogl_pango_renderer_set_dirty_glyph
at cogl-pango-render.c line 455
#19 _cogl_pango_glyph_cache_set_dirty_glyphs_cb
at cogl-pango-glyph-cache.c line 272
#20 g_hash_table_foreach
at ghash.c line 1330
#21 _cogl_pango_glyph_cache_set_dirty_glyphs
at cogl-pango-glyph-cache.c line 287
#22 clutter_text_create_layout
at ./clutter-text.c line 722
#23 clutter_text_get_preferred_width
at ./clutter-text.c line 1950
#24 clutter_actor_get_preferred_width
at ./clutter-actor.c line 5478
#25 _st_actor_get_preferred_width
at st/st-private.c line 61
#26 st_bin_get_preferred_width
at st/st-bin.c line 177
#27 clutter_actor_get_preferred_width
at ./clutter-actor.c line 5478
#28 _st_actor_get_preferred_width
at st/st-private.c line 61
#29 get_content_preferred_width
at st/st-box-layout.c line 328
#30 st_box_layout_get_preferred_width
at st/st-box-layout.c line 368
#31 clutter_actor_get_preferred_width
at ./clutter-actor.c line 5478
#32 _st_actor_get_preferred_width
at st/st-private.c line 61
#33 get_content_preferred_width
at st/st-box-layout.c line 338
#34 st_box_layout_get_preferred_width
at st/st-box-layout.c line 368
#35 clutter_actor_get_preferred_width
at ./clutter-actor.c line 5478
#36 _st_actor_get_preferred_width
at st/st-private.c line 61
#37 st_bin_get_preferred_width
at st/st-bin.c line 177
#38 clutter_actor_get_preferred_width
at ./clutter-actor.c line 5478
#39 _st_actor_get_preferred_width
at st/st-private.c line 61
#40 st_bin_get_preferred_width
at st/st-bin.c line 177
#41 clutter_actor_get_preferred_width
at ./clutter-actor.c line 5478
#42 shell_stack_get_preferred_width
at shell-stack.c line 120
#43 clutter_actor_get_preferred_width
at ./clutter-actor.c line 5478
#44 _st_actor_get_preferred_width
#45 get_content_preferred_width
at st/st-box-layout.c line 328
#46 st_box_layout_get_preferred_width
at st/st-box-layout.c line 368
#47 clutter_actor_get_preferred_width
at ./clutter-actor.c line 5478
#48 _st_actor_get_preferred_width
at st/st-private.c line 61
#49 st_group_get_preferred_width
at st/st-group.c line 108
#50 clutter_actor_get_preferred_width
at ./clutter-actor.c line 5478
#51 clutter_actor_get_preferred_size
#52 clutter_fixed_layout_get_preferred_width
at ./clutter-fixed-layout.c line 72
#53 clutter_actor_get_preferred_width
at ./clutter-actor.c line 5478
#54 clutter_actor_get_preferred_size
at ./clutter-actor.c line 5358
#55 clutter_fixed_layout_get_preferred_width
at ./clutter-fixed-layout.c line 72
#56 clutter_actor_get_preferred_width
at ./clutter-actor.c line 5478
#57 clutter_actor_get_preferred_size
#58 clutter_actor_allocate_preferred_size
at ./clutter-actor.c line 9908
#59 clutter_fixed_layout_allocate
at ./clutter-fixed-layout.c line 149
#60 clutter_stage_allocate
at ./clutter-stage.c line 301
#61 clutter_actor_allocate
at ./clutter-actor.c line 5790
#62 _clutter_stage_maybe_relayout
at ./clutter-stage.c line 801
#63 _clutter_stage_do_update
at ./clutter-stage.c line 879
#64 clutter_clock_dispatch
at ./clutter-master-clock.c line 384
#65 g_main_dispatch
at gmain.c line 2440
#66 g_main_context_dispatch
at gmain.c line 3013
#67 g_main_context_iterate
at gmain.c line 3091
#68 g_main_loop_run
at gmain.c line 3299
#69 meta_run
at core/main.c line 559
#70 main
at main.c line 459


gnome-shell-2.91.91-1.fc15.x86_64
freetype-2.4.4-4.fc15.x86_64
gjs-0.7.13-1.fc15.x86_64
mutter-2.91.91-1.fc15.x86_64
gtk3-3.0.2-1.fc15.x86_64
glib2-2.28.2-1.fc15.x86_64
pango-1.28.3-2.fc15.x86_64
cairo-1.10.2-3.fc15.x86_64
clutter-1.6.8-1.fc15.x86_64
xulrunner-2.0-0.26.rc1.fc15.x86_64

See Also : https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=683313

Comment 1 sangu 2011-03-18 00:05:47 UTC

another backtrace file

Core was generated by `/usr/bin/gnome-shell'.
Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault.

+ Trace 226361

#0 ??
#0 ??
#1 ??
#2 _cairo_surface_begin_modification
at cairo-surface.c line 388
#3 *INT_cairo_surface_set_device_offset
at cairo-surface.c line 1285
#4 *INT_cairo_surface_set_device_offset
at cairo-surface.c line 1263
#5 _cairo_ft_scaled_glyph_init
at cairo-ft-font.c line 2333
#6 _cairo_scaled_glyph_lookup
at cairo-scaled-font.c line 2829
#7 _composite_glyphs
at cairo-image-surface.c line 4012
#8 _clip_and_composite
at cairo-image-surface.c line 2316
#9 _cairo_image_surface_glyphs
at cairo-image-surface.c line 4062
#10 _cairo_surface_show_text_glyphs
at cairo-surface.c line 2682
#11 _cairo_surface_show_text_glyphs
at cairo-surface.c line 2552
#12 _cairo_gstate_show_text_glyphs
at cairo-gstate.c line 2011
#13 ??
#14 ??
#15 ??
#16 ??
#17 cogl_pango_renderer_set_dirty_glyph
#18 _cogl_pango_glyph_cache_set_dirty_glyphs_cb
at cogl-pango-glyph-cache.c line 272
#19 g_hash_table_foreach
at ghash.c line 1330
#20 _cogl_pango_glyph_cache_set_dirty_glyphs
at cogl-pango-glyph-cache.c line 287
#21 clutter_text_create_layout
at ./clutter-text.c line 722
#22 clutter_actor_get_preferred_height
at ./clutter-actor.c line 5563
#23 malloc_consolidate
at malloc.c line 5115
#24 _int_malloc
at malloc.c line 4373
#25 gjs_value_from_g_argument
at gi/arg.c line 1711
#26 gjs_invoke_c_function
at gi/function.c line 819
#27 ??

Comment 2 sangu 2011-04-13 23:18:39 UTC

LANG=ko_KR.utf8
gnome-shell-3.0.0.2-2.fc15.x86_64
mutter-3.0.0-1.fc15.x86_64
freetype-2.4.4-4.fc15.x86_64
gtk3-3.0.8-2.fc15.x86_64
pango-1.28.4-1.fc15.x86_64
cairo-1.10.2-3.fc15.x86_64
librsvg2-2.32.1-3.fc15.x86_64

+ Trace 226724

#0 gray_render_line
at /usr/src/debug/freetype-2.4.4/src/smooth/ftgrays.c line 792
#0 gray_render_line
at /usr/src/debug/freetype-2.4.4/src/smooth/ftgrays.c line 792
#1 gray_line_to
at /usr/src/debug/freetype-2.4.4/src/smooth/ftgrays.c line 1144
#2 FT_Outline_Decompose
at /usr/src/debug/freetype-2.4.4/src/base/ftoutln.c line 160
#3 gray_convert_glyph_inner
at /usr/src/debug/freetype-2.4.4/src/smooth/ftgrays.c line 1714
#4 gray_convert_glyph
at /usr/src/debug/freetype-2.4.4/src/smooth/ftgrays.c line 1816
#5 ft_smooth_render_generic
at /usr/src/debug/freetype-2.4.4/src/smooth/ftsmooth.c line 292
#6 FT_Render_Glyph_Internal
at /usr/src/debug/freetype-2.4.4/src/base/ftobjs.c line 3937
#7 _render_glyph_outline
at cairo-ft-font.c line 1357
#8 _cairo_ft_scaled_glyph_init
#9 _cairo_scaled_glyph_lookup
at cairo-scaled-font.c line 2829
#10 _composite_glyphs
at cairo-image-surface.c line 3967
#11 _clip_and_composite
at cairo-image-surface.c line 2316
#12 _cairo_image_surface_glyphs
at cairo-image-surface.c line 4062
#13 _cairo_surface_show_text_glyphs
at cairo-surface.c line 2640
#14 _cairo_surface_show_text_glyphs
#15 _cairo_gstate_show_text_glyphs
at cairo-gstate.c line 1981
#16 cairo_show_glyphs
at cairo.c line 3509
#17 cairo_show_glyphs
at cairo.c line 3489
#18 pango_cairo_renderer_show_text_glyphs
at pangocairo-render.c line 367
#19 pango_cairo_renderer_draw_glyphs
at pangocairo-render.c line 383
#20 pango_renderer_draw_glyphs
at pango-renderer.c line 645
#21 pango_renderer_draw_layout_line
#22 pango_renderer_draw_layout
at pango-renderer.c line 198
#23 _pango_cairo_do_layout
at pangocairo-render.c line 878
#24 rsvg_cairo_render_pango_layout
at rsvg-cairo-draw.c line 505
#25 rsvg_text_render_text
at rsvg-text.c line 509
#26 _rsvg_node_text_type_children
at rsvg-text.c line 176
#27 _rsvg_node_text_type_tspan
at rsvg-text.c line 291
#28 _rsvg_node_text_type_children
at rsvg-text.c line 181
#29 _rsvg_node_text_draw
at rsvg-text.c line 254
#30 rsvg_node_draw
at rsvg-structure.c line 69
#31 rsvg_node_svg_draw
at rsvg-structure.c line 326
#32 rsvg_node_draw
at rsvg-structure.c line 69
#33 rsvg_handle_render_cairo_sub
at rsvg-cairo-render.c line 234
#34 rsvg_handle_get_pixbuf_sub
at rsvg.c line 101
#35 gdk_pixbuf__svg_image_stop_load
at io-svg.c line 153
#36 gdk_pixbuf_loader_close
at gdk-pixbuf-loader.c line 787
#37 load_from_stream
at gdk-pixbuf-io.c line 1468
#38 gdk_pixbuf_new_from_stream_at_scale
at gdk-pixbuf-io.c line 1538
#39 icon_info_ensure_scale_and_pixbuf
at gtkicontheme.c line 2888
#40 icon_info_ensure_scale_and_pixbuf
at gtkicontheme.c line 2816
#41 gtk_icon_info_load_icon
at gtkicontheme.c line 3030
#42 impl_load_pixbuf_gicon
at st/st-texture-cache.c line 288
#43 load_pixbuf_thread
at st/st-texture-cache.c line 630
#44 run_in_thread
at gsimpleasyncresult.c line 838
#45 io_job_thread
at gioscheduler.c line 181
#46 g_thread_pool_thread_proxy
at gthreadpool.c line 319
#47 g_thread_create_proxy
at gthread.c line 1897
#48 start_thread
from /lib64/libpthread.so.0
#49 clone
from /lib64/libc.so.6

Comment 3 Dan Winship 2011-04-14 20:50:20 UTC

what video hardware/driver?

Comment 4 sangu 2011-04-24 11:07:37 UTC

(In reply to comment #3)
> what video hardware/driver?

Nvidia 9800GT proprietary driver 270.41.06.

Core was generated by `/usr/bin/gnome-shell'.
Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault.

+ Trace 226858

#0 glPixelStorei
from /usr/lib64/nvidia/libGL.so.1
#0 glPixelStorei
from /usr/lib64/nvidia/libGL.so.1
#1 prep_gl_for_pixels_upload_full
at driver/gl/cogl-texture-driver-gl.c line 97
#2 _cogl_texture_driver_upload_subregion_to_gl
at driver/gl/cogl-texture-driver-gl.c line 162
#3 _cogl_texture_2d_set_region
at ./cogl-texture-2d.c line 646
#4 _cogl_texture_set_region_from_bitmap
at ./cogl-texture.c line 860
#5 cogl_texture_set_region
at ./cogl-texture.c line 905
#6 cogl_pango_renderer_set_dirty_glyph
at cogl-pango-render.c line 461
#7 _cogl_pango_glyph_cache_set_dirty_glyphs_cb
#8 g_hash_table_foreach
at ghash.c line 1330
#9 _cogl_pango_glyph_cache_set_dirty_glyphs
at cogl-pango-glyph-cache.c line 287
#10 clutter_text_create_layout
at ./clutter-text.c line 722
#11 clutter_text_get_preferred_width
at ./clutter-text.c line 1950
#12 clutter_actor_get_preferred_width
at ./clutter-actor.c line 5478
#13 _st_actor_get_preferred_width
at st/st-private.c line 61
#14 st_bin_get_preferred_width
at st/st-bin.c line 177
#15 clutter_actor_get_preferred_width
at ./clutter-actor.c line 5478
#16 _st_actor_get_preferred_width
at st/st-private.c line 61
#17 get_content_preferred_width
at st/st-box-layout.c line 328
#18 st_box_layout_get_preferred_width
at st/st-box-layout.c line 368
#19 clutter_actor_get_preferred_width
at ./clutter-actor.c line 5478
#20 _st_actor_get_preferred_width
at st/st-private.c line 61
#21 get_content_preferred_width
at st/st-box-layout.c line 338
#22 st_box_layout_get_preferred_width
at st/st-box-layout.c line 368
#23 clutter_actor_get_preferred_width
at ./clutter-actor.c line 5478
#24 _st_actor_get_preferred_width
at st/st-private.c line 61
#25 st_bin_get_preferred_width
at st/st-bin.c line 177
#26 clutter_actor_get_preferred_width
at ./clutter-actor.c line 5478
#27 _st_actor_get_preferred_width
at st/st-private.c line 61
#28 st_bin_get_preferred_width
at st/st-bin.c line 177
#29 clutter_actor_get_preferred_width
at ./clutter-actor.c line 5478
#30 shell_stack_get_preferred_width
at shell-stack.c line 120
#31 clutter_actor_get_preferred_width
at ./clutter-actor.c line 5478
#32 _st_actor_get_preferred_width
at st/st-private.c line 61
#33 get_content_preferred_width
at st/st-box-layout.c line 328
#34 st_box_layout_get_preferred_width
at st/st-box-layout.c line 368
#35 clutter_actor_get_preferred_width
at ./clutter-actor.c line 5478
#36 _st_actor_get_preferred_width
#37 st_group_get_preferred_width
at st/st-group.c line 108
#38 clutter_actor_get_preferred_width
at ./clutter-actor.c line 5478
#39 clutter_actor_get_preferred_size
at ./clutter-actor.c line 5358
#40 clutter_fixed_layout_get_preferred_width
at ./clutter-fixed-layout.c line 72
#41 clutter_actor_get_preferred_width
at ./clutter-actor.c line 5478
#42 clutter_actor_get_preferred_size
#43 clutter_fixed_layout_get_preferred_width
at ./clutter-fixed-layout.c line 72
#44 clutter_actor_get_preferred_width
at ./clutter-actor.c line 5478
#45 clutter_actor_get_preferred_size
at ./clutter-actor.c line 5358
#46 clutter_actor_allocate_preferred_size
at ./clutter-actor.c line 9908
#47 clutter_fixed_layout_allocate
at ./clutter-fixed-layout.c line 149
#48 clutter_stage_allocate
at ./clutter-stage.c line 301
#49 clutter_actor_allocate
#50 _clutter_stage_maybe_relayout
at ./clutter-stage.c line 801
#51 _clutter_stage_do_update
at ./clutter-stage.c line 879
#52 clutter_clock_dispatch
at ./clutter-master-clock.c line 384
#53 g_main_dispatch
at gmain.c line 2440
#54 g_main_context_dispatch
at gmain.c line 3013
#55 g_main_context_iterate
at gmain.c line 3091
#56 g_main_loop_run
at gmain.c line 3299
#57 meta_run
at core/main.c line 557
#58 main
at main.c line 510

Comment 5 sangu 2011-11-06 01:27:17 UTC

# gdb gnome-shell coredump 

Using host libthread_db library "/lib64/libthread_db.so.1".
Core was generated by `/usr/bin/gnome-shell'.
Program terminated with signal 6, Aborted.

+ Trace 228997

#0 __GI_raise
at ../nptl/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/raise.c line 64
#0 __GI_raise
at ../nptl/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/raise.c line 64
#1 __GI_abort
at abort.c line 91
#2 __libc_message
at ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/libc_fatal.c line 198
#3 malloc_printerr
#4 g_free
at gmem.c line 263
#5 pango_glyph_string_free
at glyphstring.c line 141
#6 free_run
at pango-layout.c line 2839
#7 g_slist_foreach
at gslist.c line 880
#8 pango_layout_line_unref
at pango-layout.c line 3991
#9 pango_layout_clear_lines
at pango-layout.c line 2789
#10 pango_layout_finalize
at pango-layout.c line 231
#11 g_object_unref
#12 rsvg_text_render_text
at rsvg-text.c line 515
#13 _rsvg_node_text_type_children
at rsvg-text.c line 178
#14 _rsvg_node_text_type_tspan
at rsvg-text.c line 295
#15 _rsvg_node_text_type_children
at rsvg-text.c line 183
#16 _rsvg_node_text_draw
at rsvg-text.c line 258
#17 rsvg_node_draw
at rsvg-structure.c line 69
#18 rsvg_node_svg_draw
at rsvg-structure.c line 325
#19 rsvg_node_draw
at rsvg-structure.c line 69
#20 rsvg_handle_render_cairo_sub
#21 rsvg_handle_get_pixbuf_sub
at rsvg.c line 101
#22 gdk_pixbuf__svg_image_stop_load
at io-svg.c line 154
#23 gdk_pixbuf_loader_close
from /usr/lib64/libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.so.0
#24 ??
from /usr/lib64/libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.so.0
#25 gdk_pixbuf_new_from_stream_at_scale
from /usr/lib64/libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.so.0
#26 ??
from /usr/lib64/libgtk-3.so.0
#27 gtk_icon_info_load_icon
from /usr/lib64/libgtk-3.so.0
#28 impl_load_pixbuf_gicon
at st/st-texture-cache.c line 288
#29 load_pixbuf_thread
at st/st-texture-cache.c line 630
#30 run_in_thread
at gsimpleasyncresult.c line 843
#31 io_job_thread
at gioscheduler.c line 180
#32 g_thread_pool_thread_proxy
at gthreadpool.c line 319
#33 g_thread_create_proxy
at gthread.c line 1962
#34 start_thread
at pthread_create.c line 309
#35 clone
at ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/x86_64/clone.S line 115


vga driver - nvidia proprietary driver 290.06
gnome-shell-3.2.1-2.fc16.x86_64
mutter-3.2.1-2.fc16.x86_64
librsvg2-2.34.1-1.fc16.x86_64
pango-1.29.4-1.fc16.x86_64
gvfs-1.10.1-2.fc16.x86_64
gtk3-3.2.1-1.fc16.x86_64
glib2-2.30.1-1.fc16.x86_64

Comment 6 Jasper St. Pierre (not reading bugmail) 2011-11-06 02:43:46 UTC

This is a separate crash.

Comment 7 Florian Müllner 2013-06-14 15:18:56 UTC

I would be very surprised if this particular backtrace is still relevant (with newer versions of X, nvidia drivers, cogl/clutter and mutter/gnome-shell) ...
Feel free to reopen if this can still be reproduced.