gnome-shell segfault seen in mesa i965_dri.so dri driver on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • gnome-shell crashes in mesa dri driver i965_dri.so onRHEL 7.

    Dec 14 18:17:54 bal77 kernel: gnome-shell[3724]: segfault at 3f ip 00007fa7fd5671f4 sp 00007ffdb6be4b48 error 4 in i965_dri.so[7fa7fd17f000+597000]
Dec 14 18:17:54 bal77 gnome-session[3657]: WARNING: Application 'gnome-shell.desktop' killed by signal 11
Dec 14 18:17:54 bal77 gnome-session: gnome-session[3657]: WARNING: Application 'gnome-shell.desktop' killed by signal 11

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2
  • xorg-x11-drv-intel-2.99.917-22.20151206.el7.x86_64
  • mesa-dri-drivers-10.6.5-3.20150824.el7.x86_64
  • gnome-shell-3.14.4-40.el7.x86_64

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