Gnome-shell crashes while connecting to RHEL 7.5 and above through Xmanager GUI tool

Solution Unverified - Updated -

Issue

  • gnome-shell crashes while connecting to RHEL 7.5 and above through Xmanager GUI tool

  • Following errors are seen in message logs :

org.gnome.Shell.desktop[*]: xkbcommon: ERROR: xkb_x11_keymap_new_from_device: illegal device ID: -1
kernel: gnome-shell[*]: segfault at 8 ip ... error 4 in libxkbcommon.so.0.0.0[...]

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7.5 and higher
  • Gnome

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