This message appeared to me after installing NVIDIA drivers (Nvidia binary driver-version 340.106-0UBUNTU1) and reboot the PC.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-shell in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1746969 Title: gnome-shell crashed with signal 5 in g_log_default_handler() Status in gnome-shell package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: After update --> reboot. ProblemType: Crash DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04 Package: gnome-shell 3.26.2-0ubuntu2 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.14.0-16.19-generic 4.14.12 Uname: Linux 4.14.0-16-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.20.8-0ubuntu8 Architecture: amd64 CrashCounter: 1 CurrentDesktop: GNOME-Greeter:GNOME Date: Thu Feb 1 13:15:33 2018 DisplayManager: gdm3 ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-shell GsettingsChanges: ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/gnome-shell ProcEnviron: PATH=(custom, no user) XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set> LANG=de_DE.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/false Signal: 5 SourcePackage: gnome-shell StacktraceTop: ?? () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0 g_log_default_handler () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0 ?? () g_logv () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0 g_log () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0 Title: gnome-shell crashed with signal 5 in g_log_default_handler() UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to bionic on 2017-12-04 (60 days ago) UserGroups: To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-shell/+bug/1746969/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp