gnome-shell crashes with signal 11 in _clutter_input_device_reset_scroll_info()

Issue

Gnome session hung and gnome-shell dumped a core.:

gnome-session: (gnome-shell:32193): Clutter-CRITICAL **: clutter_input_device_get_n_axes: assertion 'CLUTTER_IS_INPUT_DEVICE (device)' failed
gnome-session: (gnome-shell:32193): Clutter-CRITICAL **: clutter_input_device_get_n_axes: assertion 'CLUTTER_IS_INPUT_DEVICE (device)' failed
gnome-shell[32193]: segfault at e0 ip 00007fa75977ec40 sp 00007ffe89fa8468 error 4 in libclutter-1.0.so.0.2000.0[7fa7596fe000+141000]
gnome-session: (gnome-shell:32193): Clutter-CRITICAL **: clutter_input_device_get_n_axes: assertion 'CLUTTER_IS_INPUT_DEVICE (device)' failed
gnome-session: (gnome-shell:32193): Clutter-CRITICAL **: clutter_input_device_get_n_axes: assertion 'CLUTTER_IS_INPUT_DEVICE (device)' failed

The core shows following backtrace.

(gdb) bt
Python Exception <type 'exceptions.ImportError'> No module named gdb.frames:
#0  _clutter_input_device_reset_scroll_info (device=device@entry=0x0)
    at ./clutter-input-device.c:1742
#1  0x00007fa75973a4eb in clutter_device_manager_xi2_translate_event (
    translator=<optimized out>, native=<optimized out>, event=0x3a543a0)
    at x11/clutter-device-manager-xi2.c:1318
#2  0x00007fa75975c6ac in clutter_backend_real_translate_event (backend=<optimized out>,
    native=0x7ffe89fa8590, event=0x3a543a0) at ./clutter-backend.c:629
#3  0x00007fa7597351e2 in clutter_x11_handle_event (xevent=xevent@entry=0x7ffe89fa8590)
    at x11/clutter-event-x11.c:200
#4  0x00007fa75a3425dd in handle_host_xevent (event=0x7ffe89fa8590, backend=0xae82d0)
    at backends/x11/meta-backend-x11.c:219
#5  x_event_source_dispatch (source=<optimized out>, callback=<optimized out>,
    user_data=<optimized out>) at backends/x11/meta-backend-x11.c:272
#6  0x00007fa755f4f79a in g_main_dispatch (context=0xae0340) at gmain.c:3109
#7  g_main_context_dispatch (context=context@entry=0xae0340) at gmain.c:3708
#8  0x00007fa755f4fae8 in g_main_context_iterate (context=0xae0340, block=block@entry=1,
    dispatch=dispatch@entry=1, self=<optimized out>) at gmain.c:3779
#9  0x00007fa755f4fdba in g_main_loop_run (loop=0xae96e0) at gmain.c:3973
#10 0x00007fa75a369f38 in meta_run () at core/main.c:473
#11 0x0000000000402455 in main (argc=1, argv=0x7ffe89fa8948) at main.c:471