getting SIGSEGV when executing rosrun gazebo_ros gazebo

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I recently switched from Ubuntu 17.04 to 17.10 and now after installing ROS, gazebo does not start when I try to start it via ros.

I run

rosrun gazebo_ros gazebo

which returned

Segmentation fault (core dumped)
/opt/ros/lunar/lib/gazebo_ros/gazebo: 46: kill: invalid signal number or name: SIGINT

the output of

rosrun gazebo_ros debug

(with backtrace) is the following

/opt/ros/lunar/lib/gazebo_ros/debug: 5: [: Linux: unexpected operator
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Reading symbols from gzserver...(no debugging symbols found)...done.
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
Using host libthread_db library "/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libthread_db.so.1".
[New Thread 0x7fffc9a84700 (LWP 17678)]

Thread 1 "gzserver" received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0x00007ffff4378005 in tinyxml2::XMLNode::InsertChildPreamble(tinyxml2::XMLNode*) const () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtinyxml2.so.5
(gdb) Quit
(gdb) bt
#0  0x00007ffff4378005 in tinyxml2::XMLNode::InsertChildPreamble(tinyxml2::XMLNode*) const () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtinyxml2.so.5
#1  0x00007ffff4378031 in tinyxml2::XMLNode::InsertEndChild(tinyxml2::XMLNode*) () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtinyxml2.so.5
#2  0x00007ffff4379a21 in tinyxml2::XMLNode::ParseDeep(char*, tinyxml2::StrPair*, int*) () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtinyxml2.so.5
#3  0x00007ffff437a0cc in tinyxml2::XMLDocument::LoadFile(_IO_FILE*) () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtinyxml2.so.5
#4  0x00007ffff437a121 in tinyxml2::XMLDocument::LoadFile(char const*) () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtinyxml2.so.5
#5  0x00007fffc859c163 in rospack::Rosstackage::loadManifest(rospack::Stackage*) () from /opt/ros/lunar/lib/librospack.so
#6  0x00007fffc85a15e9 in rospack::Rosstackage::addStackage(std::__cxx11::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> > const&) () from /opt/ros/lunar/lib/librospack.so
#7  0x00007fffc85a5c86 in rospack::Rosstackage::readCache() () from /opt/ros/lunar/lib/librospack.so
#8  0x00007fffc85a5d4c in rospack::Rosstackage::crawl(std::vector<std::__cxx11::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> >, std::allocator<std::__cxx11::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> > > >, bool) () from /opt/ros/lunar/lib/librospack.so
#9  0x00007fffc85b35ac in rospack::rospack_run(int, char**, rospack::Rosstackage&, std::__cxx11::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> >&) () from /opt/ros/lunar/lib/librospack.so
#10 0x00007fffc85af319 in rospack::ROSPack::run(int, char**) () from /opt/ros/lunar/lib/librospack.so
#11 0x00007fffc85af805 in rospack::ROSPack::run(std::__cxx11::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> > const&) () from /opt/ros/lunar/lib/librospack.so
#12 0x00007fffc8a04d01 in ros::package::command(std::__cxx11::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> > const&) () from /opt/ros/lunar/lib/libroslib.so ...