RE 1) Yes I have PPAs in use: (hopefully it's not a crime ;o) - but, please do let me know how to isolate one as providing "bad" or perhaps an "old" library? {{{ /etc/apt/sources.list.d$ find . | egrep "list$" ./wire-desktop.list ./google-earth.list ./webupd8team-ubuntu-atom-xenial.list ./steam.list ./webupd8team-java.list ./private-ppa.launchpad.net_commercial-ppa-uploaders_brightness-controller_ubuntu.list ./i3wm.list ./mystic-mirage-ubuntu-pycharm-xenial.list ./videolan-stable-daily.list ./virtualbox.list ./slack.list ./gnumdk-ubuntu-lollypop-xenial.list ./dropbox.list ./shiki-mediainfo-precise.list ./google-talkplugin.list ./webupd8team-tor.list ./strukturag-libde265-trusty.list ./shutter-ppa.list ./ring-nightly-man.list ./google-chrome.list ./webupd8team-ubuntu-java-xenial.list ./wine-ubuntu-wine-builds-xenial.list ./skype-unstable.list ./svn-ppa-precise.list ./tualatrix-ppa-precise.list ./skype-stable.list ./team-xbmc-ubuntu-xbmc-nightly-xenial.list ./maarten-baert-ubuntu-simplescreenrecorder-xenial.list ./gnome3-team-gnome3-trusty.list ./phablet-team-tools-precise.list ./ne0sight-ubuntu-chrome-gnome-shell-xenial.list ./ubuntu-wine-ubuntu-ppa-xenial.list }}}
RE libcogl20; (what is "suspicious" about it?) {{{ $ apt-cache search libcogl20 libcogl20 - Object oriented GL/GLES Abstraction/Utility Layer libcogl20-dbg - Object oriented GL/GLES Abstraction/Utility Layer (debug files) $ apt-cache show libcogl20 Package: libcogl20 Priority: optional Section: libs Installed-Size: 817 Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <ubuntu-devel-disc...@lists.ubuntu.com> Original-Maintainer: Debian GNOME Maintainers <pkg-gnome-maintain...@lists.alioth.debian.org> Architecture: amd64 Source: cogl Version: 1.22.0-2 Depends: libc6 (>= 2.17), libcairo2 (>= 1.10), libdrm2 (>= 2.4.17), libegl1-mesa (>= 7.8.1) | libegl1-x11, libgbm1 (>= 8.1~0), libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 (>= 2.22.0), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.32.0), libwayland-client0 (>= 1.3.92), libwayland-egl1-mesa (>= 10.0.2) | libwayland-egl1, libwayland-server0 (>= 1.2.0), libx11-6, libxdamage1 (>= 1:1.1), libxext6, libxfixes3, libxrandr2 (>= 2:1.2.0), libgl1-mesa-glx Recommends: libcogl-common Suggests: libgles2-mesa | libgles2 Breaks: libclutter-1.0-0 (<< 1.17), libcogl11, libcogl12, libcogl15, libcogl9 Filename: pool/main/c/cogl/libcogl20_1.22.0-2_amd64.deb Size: 283916 MD5sum: 5cebf6546cc68d93c484ab5902bdb7f8 SHA1: 8c53e01546d50cfd830e09eaf40e4776f5324af4 SHA256: 7301ea606ae65e9c5f03531f83bb33b6f5400954dea9587079420e979a7923a8 Description-en: Object oriented GL/GLES Abstraction/Utility Layer Cogl is a small open source library for using 3D graphics hardware to draw pretty pictures. The API departs from the flat state machine style of OpenGL and is designed to make it easy to write orthogonal components that can render without stepping on each others toes. Description-md5: 8c0fee75492f726194fa0be454f54661 Multi-Arch: same Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Origin: Ubuntu Supported: 5y Task: ubuntu-desktop, ubuntu-usb, edubuntu-desktop, edubuntu-usb, xubuntu-desktop, lubuntu-desktop, ubuntustudio-desktop, ubuntu-gnome-desktop, ubuntukylin-desktop, ubuntu-mate-desktop }}} RE 2) , again, I never have any crash files in /var/crash. Not sure why. {{{ $ sudo systemctl status apport.service ● apport.service - LSB: automatic crash report generation Loaded: loaded (/etc/init.d/apport; bad; vendor preset: enabled) Active: active (exited) since Fri 2017-12-15 13:19:31 EST; 6 days ago Docs: man:systemd-sysv-generator(8) Process: 2733 ExecStart=/etc/init.d/apport start (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS) Tasks: 0 Memory: 0B CPU: 0 }}} , it looks like however it was marked as disabled in `/etc/default/apport` ; (I clearly disabled it ~2years ago because things kept crashing and I wasn't in the position to deal with it... I recall a time when colord was crashing all the time; couldn't live my life! ;o) SO; RE #2, I've re-enabled that, so -hopefully- I get a proper core file next gnome-shell crash. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1739525 Title: gnome-shell segfault at e8 in libgdk-3.so.0 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-shell/+bug/1739525/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs