Please check if you have the extension Taskbar installed. In 17.10, each and every time I load it the shell would not start if Taskbar was enabled. It may be responsible for the random crashes of the shell as well.
It's a great plugin, but may be buggy. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1539591 Title: gnome-shell crashed with SIGABRT in g_assertion_message() To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-shell/+bug/1539591/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs