Why gnome-shell crashes when Xinerama is enabled in xorg.conf file ?

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • Cannot see a login screen. Only get a black screen.
  • Following error is seen
gnome-shell[2570]: segfault at 14 ip 00007fedf13f3487 sp 00007ffe3bec1020 error 4 in libmutter.so.0.0.0[7fedf13b7000+e1000]

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4
  • gnome-shell
  • gdm
  • mutter

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