This very common crash has not been reported to errors.ubuntu.com in several weeks on artful. I verified that I could not reproduce the crash at LP: #1695567 any more after updating libgweather to 3.24.1-0ubuntu0.1 on Ubuntu GNOME 17.04.
** Tags removed: verification-needed ** Tags added: verification-done-zesty -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to libgweather in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1688208 Title: gnome-shell crashed with SIGSEGV in foreach_city() from foreach_city() from foreach_city() from foreach_city() from foreach_city() Status in libgweather: Confirmed Status in gnome-shell package in Ubuntu: Invalid Status in libgweather package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in libgweather source package in Zesty: Fix Committed Bug description: Impact ====== Memory corruption in libgweather caused gnome-shell to crash. This is particularly bad for GNOME on Wayland as a gnome-shell crash will causes the user to lose their sessions. (GNOME Shell 3.24 introduced a new weather feature in the clock menu.) This particular error has been reported over 1000 times to errors.ubuntu.com from Ubuntu GNOME 17.04 and was also a Fedora 26 blocker bug. Test Case ========= The number of crashes reported on errors.ubuntu.com for gnome-shell should be significantly lower once this new version of libgweather rolls out. Because e.u.com links this issue with gnome-shell, this is difficult to verify except that if you run gnome-shell, it shouldn't crash so often especially when first logging in. Regression Potential ==================== The main new commit here had already been cherry-picked by Fedora and in Ubuntu 17.10 Alpha. Considering the previous The Ubuntu Error Tracker has been receiving reports about a problem regarding gnome-shell. This problem was most recently seen with package version 3.24.1-0ubuntu3, the problem page at https://errors.ubuntu.com/problem/39b6625ed47999dab38b064b2d91bde1e11dec62 contains more details, including versions of packages affected, stacktrace or traceback, and individual crash reports. If you do not have access to the Ubuntu Error Tracker you can request it at http://forms.canonical.com/reports/. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/libgweather/+bug/1688208/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
