GNOME on Wayland works around the crash. Based on the apport-retrace results, this is possibly a duplicate of bug 1788483.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-shell in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1790992 Title: gnome-shell crashes with SIGABRT when touching stylus to screen, "assertion failed: (trap->end_sequence == 0)" in in gdk_x11_display_error_trap_pop_internal() from gdk_x11_display_error_trap_pop() from meta_x11_error_trap_pop_with_return() from meta_input_settings_x11_set_stylus_button_map() Status in gnome-shell package in Ubuntu: New Status in mutter package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: My Thinkpad Yoga 14 20FY has a builtin stylus pen. If I touch it to the screen, gnome-shell immediately crashes, 100% reproducibly. ProblemType: Crash DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.10 Package: gnome-shell 3.29.90-2ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.17.0-9.10-generic 4.17.17 Uname: Linux 4.17.0-9-generic x86_64 NonfreeKernelModules: openafs ApportVersion: 2.20.10-0ubuntu9 Architecture: amd64 CurrentDesktop: GNOME Date: Wed Sep 5 18:28:08 2018 DisplayManager: gdm3 EcryptfsInUse: Yes ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-shell InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-02-19 (929 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-GNOME 16.04 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Alpha amd64 (20160218) ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/gnome-shell Signal: 6 SourcePackage: gnome-shell StacktraceTop: () at /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0 g_assertion_message_expr () at /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0 () at /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgdk-3.so.0 () at /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libmutter-3.so.0 g_closure_invoke () at /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgobject-2.0.so.0 Title: gnome-shell crashed with SIGABRT UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to cosmic on 2018-08-17 (19 days ago) UserGroups: adm audio bumblebee cdrom dip docker libvirt libvirtd lpadmin lxd mock plugdev sambashare sbuild sudo wireshark To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-shell/+bug/1790992/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp