gnome-shell crash on first running keybase Ubuntu 16.04.1 64 bit

gnome-shell crash on first running keybase Ubuntu 16.04.1 64 bit

my log id: 5309e21f48aad41d1c97dc1c

What showed up in the Gnome terminal was as follows:
Selecting previously unselected package keybase.
(Reading database ... 1380575 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack keybase_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking keybase (1.0.17-20161007160040.61672fe) ...
Setting up keybase (1.0.17-20161007160040.61672fe) ...
Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme (0.15-0ubuntu1) ...
Processing triggers for bamfdaemon (0.5.3bzr0+16.04.20160824-0ubuntu1) ...
Rebuilding /usr/share/applications/bamf-2.index...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.22-1ubuntu5) ...
Processing triggers for gnome-menus (3.13.3-6ubuntu3.1) ...
Processing triggers for mime-support (3.59ubuntu1) ...
simon@fletcher:/Downloads$ run_keybase
Launching keybase service...
Mounting /keybase...
Launching Keybase GUI...
Success!

I also got a rather nice ASCII-art squirrel, but no GUI launched.

The keybase filesystem is mounted:

simon@fletcher:~/Downloads$ mount | grep keybase
/dev/fuse on /keybase type fuse (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_id=1000,group_id=1000)

There is a 'keybase' entry under 'Internet' in the 'Applications' menu in Gnome (gnome-shell 3.18.5-0ubuntu0.1); selecting it launches the GUI successfully.

So essentially the DEB installer worked but failed to launch the GUI, and, in failing, caused the operating system to believe there had been a crash in gnome-shell.

Note that most Ubuntu users are probably running Unity, not gnome-shell, so this issue (if reproducable) probably doesn't affect many users,

Begin with the DEB installation and run_keybase flow on Ubuntu 16.04.1 with GNOME Shell, using log ID 5309e21f48aad41d1c97dc1c and the reported terminal output. Done means the first launch no longer triggers the apparent GNOME Shell crash and the Keybase GUI opens normally.