Why gnome-shell fails due to SIGSEGV on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.5?

Solution In Progress - Updated -

Issue

  • gnome-shell crashes with SIGSEGV in meta_monitor_mode_get_resolution() in RHEL 7.5 and RHEL 7.6.
  • After groupinstall 'Server with GUI', startx works but after some time it crashes.
  • X-console crashes and becomes unresponsive in a VMware Virtual Machine.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.5
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6
  • gnome-shell-3.26.x, 3.28.x
  • mutter-3.28.x, 3.28.x

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