Week 40 - System froze after a grid highlight window appear

[Nice Testhouse]

Ubuntu Chinese Edition 12.10 (Quantal Quetzal) Daily Build

issue 1: A grid highlight window appear after opened a Firefox browser. (See the screenshot.)
issue 2: System froze. The application windows opened automatically after system froze. (Please see the attached video.)

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
Package: unity 6.6.0-0ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-16.25-generic 3.5.4
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-16-generic i686
.tmp.unity.support.test.0:

ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu1
Architecture: i386
CompizPlugins: No value set for `/apps/compiz-1/general/screen0/options/active_plugins'
CompositorRunning: compiz
Date: Fri Oct 5 12:06:08 2012
DistUpgraded: Fresh install
DistroCodename: quantal
DistroVariant: ubuntu
GraphicsCard:
 Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI Cedar PRO [Radeon HD 5450/6350] [1002:68f9] (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
   Subsystem: Dell XPS 8300 [1028:010e]
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.10 "Quantal" - Build i386 LIVE Binary 20121002-22:55
MachineType: Dell Inc. Inspiron 580
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.5.0-16-generic root=UUID=f8db0a65-fea7-43ed-8189-babaabd1bbc2 ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
SourcePackage: unity
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
XorgLogOld:

dmi.bios.date: 11/30/2009
dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.bios.version: A02
dmi.board.name: 033FF6
dmi.board.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.board.version: A00
dmi.chassis.type: 3
dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnDellInc.:bvrA02:bd11/30/2009:svnDellInc.:pnInspiron580:pvr:rvnDellInc.:rn033FF6:rvrA00:cvnDellInc.:ct3:cvr:
dmi.product.name: Inspiron 580
dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Inc.
version.compiz: compiz 1:0.9.8.4-0ubuntu1
version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.39-0ubuntu1
version.libgl1-mesa-dri: libgl1-mesa-dri 9.0~git20120917.7cfd42ce-0ubuntu3
version.libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental: libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental N/A
version.libgl1-mesa-glx: libgl1-mesa-glx 9.0~git20120917.7cfd42ce-0ubuntu3
version.xserver-xorg-core: xserver-xorg-core 2:1.13.0-0ubuntu5
version.xserver-xorg-input-evdev: xserver-xorg-input-evdev 1:2.7.3-0ubuntu1
version.xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:6.99.99~git20120913.8637f772-0ubuntu1
version.xserver-xorg-video-intel: xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.20.9-0ubuntu2
version.xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:1.0.2-0ubuntu2

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

The video shows the dash open. Does tapping Super or Escape close it?

Also, during the hang, could you please force a compiz core dump (and hopefully automatic crash report) using this command:
    killall -ABRT compiz

You may have to log in to a virtual terminal (Ctrl+Alt+F1) to do it. The switch back using Ctrl+Alt+F7.

[Nice Testhouse (testhouse)]

@ Daniel - No, unity does not respond to Super or Escape, only the mouse pointer is movable at this time. Please note that the issue in the attached video happened when we tried to use the mouse to click on different launcher icons, for a while nothing happened and suddenly it started opening all app windows on its own and continuously flickering.
During the hang we were unable to report the bug through Apport. So far, it has not been possible to reproduce the one shown in this video. But we might still be able to reproduce the empty window (similar to grid highlight) appearing when working with Firefox and see if I can use the above suggested method to report it.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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