After updating mutter, segfault occurred on gnome-shell in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Solution Unverified - Updated -

Issue

  • After updating mutter, segfault occurred on gnome-shell with following error:
Feb  5 15:00:07 rhel74 systemd: Starting Daemon for power management...
Feb  5 15:00:07 rhel74 dbus[670]: [system] Successfully activated service 'org.freedesktop.UPower'
Feb  5 15:00:07 rhel74 dbus-daemon: dbus[670]: [system] Successfully activated service 'org.freedesktop.UPower'
Feb  5 15:00:07 rhel74 systemd: Started Daemon for power management.
Feb  5 15:00:07 rhel74 kernel: gnome-shell[10627]: segfault at 0 ip 00007fbe4816fef4 sp 00007ffda8d95e10 error 4 in libgdk-3.so.0.2200.10[7fbe48145000+b1000]
Feb  5 15:00:07 rhel74 abrt-hook-ccpp: Process 10627 (gnome-shell) of user 42 killed by SIGSEGV - dumping core
Feb  5 15:00:08 rhel74 gnome-session-binary[10582]: WARNING: Application 'org.gnome.Shell.desktop' killed by signal 11
Feb  5 15:00:08 rhel74 gnome-session: gnome-session-binary[10582]: WARNING: Application 'org.gnome.Shell.desktop' killed by signal 11
Feb  5 15:00:08 rhel74 kernel: gnome-shell[10653]: segfault at 0 ip 00007f9f3e390ef4 sp 00007ffe6c7b76b0 error 4 in libgdk-3.so.0.2200.10[7f9f3e366000+b1000]
Feb  5 15:00:08 rhel74 abrt-hook-ccpp: Process 10653 (gnome-shell) of user 42 killed by SIGSEGV - ignoring (repeated crash)
Feb  5 15:00:08 rhel74 gnome-session-binary[10582]: WARNING: Application 'org.gnome.Shell.desktop' killed by signal 11
Feb  5 15:00:08 rhel74 gnome-session-binary: Unrecoverable failure in required component org.gnome.Shell.desktop
Feb  5 15:00:08 rhel74 gnome-session: gnome-session-binary[10582]: WARNING: Application 'org.gnome.Shell.desktop' killed by signal 11

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
  • gnome3

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