Why gnome-shell fails due to SIGSEGV on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.5?
Issue
gnome-shell
crashes with SIGSEGV in meta_monitor_mode_get_resolution() inRHEL 7.5
andRHEL 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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