compiz crashed with SIGSEGV in CompTimer::active() from DecorWindow::DecorWindow()

[Porx Grinder]

1) Description: Ubuntu quantal (development branch)
Release: 12.10

2) compiz:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 1:0.9.8.4-0ubuntu1
  Version table:
     1:0.9.8.4-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ quantal/main amd64 Packages

3)

4) Window borders are missing

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
Package: compiz-core 1:0.9.8.4-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-17.27-generic 3.5.5
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-17-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
CrashCounter: 1
Date: Sat Oct 6 15:07:03 2012
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/compiz
InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release amd64 (20111011)
ProcCmdline: compiz --sm-client-id 2b0c1883c-65ff-48ff-8613-bd40e548715f
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US:en
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SegvAnalysis:
 Segfault happened at: 0x7fb1159f51b3 <_ZN9CompTimer6activeEv+3>: movzbl (%rax),%eax
 PC (0x7fb1159f51b3) ok
 source "(%rax)" (0x00000000) not located in a known VMA region (needed readable region)!
 destination "%eax" ok
SegvReason: reading NULL VMA
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: compiz
StacktraceTop:
 CompTimer::active() () from /usr/lib/libcompiz_core.so.ABI-20120927
 DecorWindow::DecorWindow(CompWindow*) () from /usr/lib/compiz/libdecor.so
 PluginClassHandler<DecorWindow, CompWindow, 0>::get(CompWindow*) () from /usr/lib/compiz/libdecor.so
 CompPlugin::VTableForScreenAndWindow<DecorScreen, DecorWindow>::initWindow(CompWindow*) () from /usr/lib/compiz/libdecor.so
 CompScreenImpl::_initPluginForScreen(CompPlugin*) () from /usr/lib/libcompiz_core.so.ABI-20120927
Title: compiz crashed with SIGSEGV in CompTimer::active()
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to quantal on 2012-09-01 (34 days ago)
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StacktraceTop:
 CompTimer::active (this=0x1827998) at /build/buildd/compiz-0.9.8.4/src/timer/src/timer.cpp:321
 DecorWindow::DecorWindow (this=0x1a68970, w=0x1baefd0) at /build/buildd/compiz-0.9.8.4/plugins/decor/src/decor.cpp:3111
 getInstance (base=0x1baefd0) at /build/buildd/compiz-0.9.8.4/plugins/../src/pluginclasshandler/include/core/pluginclasshandler.h:225
 PluginClassHandler<DecorWindow, CompWindow, 0>::get (base=0x1baefd0) at /build/buildd/compiz-0.9.8.4/plugins/../src/pluginclasshandler/include/core/pluginclasshandler.h:256
 CompPlugin::VTableForScreenAndWindow<DecorScreen, DecorWindow>::initWindow (this=<optimized out>, w=<optimized out>) at /build/buildd/compiz-0.9.8.4/plugins/../include/core/plugin.h:246

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

Looks like a DecorWindow is being constructed during a plugin shuffle while no DecorScreen exists... ?

[Porx Grinder (marx-grinder)]

Solved the "window borders missing" problem by deleting everything in the home/cache folder.. Not getting the bug anymore...

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[dino99 (9d9)]

That version has reached EOL since a while, so it will not receive update. If that issue still exist, report again using ubuntu-bug.