Xfce crashes very frequently

[Doug Turnbull]

Interacting with the window manager in any way almost immediately causes Xfce to crash and take me back to the login screen. Its making the OS mostly unusable. It appears to be tied to interacting with any UI component. If I do it long enough, Xfce crashes. At first I thought it might have to do with the update screen, but that appears to be a red herring.

Xubuntu had been working fine for some time. I'm not sure what caused this to start to happen.

Initially I was running Virtualbox 4.10 when this occured. I've tried upgrade Virtualbox and reinstalling the guest additions. None of this has helped.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04
Package: xfwm4 4.10.0-4ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-26.38-generic 3.8.13.2
Uname: Linux 3.8.0-26-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.9.2-0ubuntu8.1
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sat Jul 20 16:42:34 2013
InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-06-24 (26 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 13.04 "Raring Ringtail" - Release amd64 (20130423.1)
MarkForUpload: True
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: xfwm4
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Stephen Michael Kellat (skellat)]

Could you please list some more specific examples of actions that have cause xfwm4 to crash out? Those would be very useful to aid in understanding what is happening in this situation.

[Doug Turnbull (softwaredoug)]

Looking at the stacktrace for this bug the crash is in g_slice_alloc

[Stephen Michael Kellat (skellat)]

Okay Doug, Launchpad scored this as being a duplicate of a separate bug for which a Stable Release Update was made. See: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1104435

The best thing to do is to run a sudo apt-get update/sudo apt-get upgrade pair of commands as soon as possible. Follow the other bug thread for further discussion.

[Doug Turnbull (softwaredoug)]

@Stephen

Thanks for the timely response. I noticed that there's a fix for Saucy but not Raring (which is what I have installed). Should I ugrade to Saucy?