/usr/bin/gnome-shell:*** Error in `/usr/bin/gnome-shell': double free or corruption (out): ADDR *** in g_free() from gweather_location_unref()

Hello errors.ubuntu.com, or anyone else affected,

Accepted libgweather into zesty-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libgweather/3.24.1-0ubuntu0.1 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how to enable and use -proposed.Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

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Thank you!

Before applying this update, I was able to easily crash GNOME Shell in a default clean updated Ubuntu GNOME 17.04. All I had to do with click the system status menu in the top right and enable Location.

After updating to libgweather 3.24.1-0ubuntu0.1, I can't reproduce the crash.

I also utilized a database query for the bucket associated with this crash to check the dependencies for the libgweather version of crashes reported in June of 2017. This is the result:

1091 examined.
(u'3.18.2-0ubuntu0.1', 7)
(u'3.24.0-0ubuntu2', 1082)

So the new version does fix the linked crash.

This bug was fixed in the package libgweather - 3.24.1-0ubuntu0.1

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libgweather (3.24.1-0ubuntu0.1) zesty; urgency=medium

  * New upstream bugfix release
    - Fix memory corruption that crashes gnome-shell
      (LP: #1695567) (LP: #1688208) Thanks Tim Lunn for triaging!
  * Drop git_guard-against-segfault.patch, applied in new release

 -- Jeremy Bicha <email address hidden> Mon, 05 Jun 2017 23:06:59 -0400

The verification of the Stable Release Update for libgweather has completed successfully and the package has now been released to -updates. Subsequently, the Ubuntu Stable Release Updates Team is being unsubscribed and will not receive messages about this bug report. In the event that you encounter a regression using the package from -updates please report a new bug using ubuntu-bug and tag the bug report regression-update so we can easily find any regressions.