compiz crashed when installing kpatience themes

[linuxonbute]

the summary tells it all! I restarted it and continued without problems. It crahsed a number of times on my old laptop which failed last week. Both are HP laptops but as far as I can remember different video cards.
The old one was a HP G56-106sa and the new one a HP G6-1154sa if that helps. Running 12.04 with all updates on both.

[Ubuntu Foundations Team Bug Bot (crichton)]

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[linuxonbute (normanelliott)]

Sorry but I do not know enough about it to determine where the problem lies exactly. Compiz does not come up as an application so I cannot run any tests.
The only other thing I can say is that I forgot to mention that the old laptop was running 32 bit and the new one 64 bit ubuntu 12.04

[penalvch (penalvch)]

linuxonbute, thank you for reporting this and helping make Ubuntu better. However, your crash report is missing. Please follow these instructions to have apport report a new bug about your crash that can be dealt with by the automatic retracer. First, execute at a terminal:
cd /var/crash && sudo rm * ; sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get -y upgrade && sudo service apport start force_start=1

If you are running the Ubuntu Stable Release you might need to enable apport in /etc/default/apport and restart.

Now reproduce the crash, then open your file manager, navigate to your /var/crash directory and open the crash report you wish to submit.
If this fails you will have to open a terminal and file your report with 'ubuntu-bug /var/crash/_my_crash_report.crash' where _my_crash_report.crash is the crash you would like to report. If you get an error that you aren't allowed to access this report you will have to file it with 'sudo ubuntu-bug /var/crash/_my_crash_report.crash'. If you run the command against the crash report and a window pops up asking you to report this, but then never opens a new report, you would be affected by https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apport/+bug/994921 . In order to WORKAROUND this, one would need to open the following file via a command line:
gksudo gedit /etc/apport/crashdb.conf

and comment out the line:
'problem_types': ['Bug', 'Package'],

by changing it to:
# 'problem_types': ['Bug', 'Package'],

Save, close, and try to file the crash report again via:
ubuntu-bug /var/crash/_my_crash_report.crash

Please follow https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingCompiz when you file this crash report so the necessary information is provided.

I'm closing this bug report since the process outlined above will automatically open a new bug report which can then dealt with more efficiently.

Thank you for your understanding.

Helpful bug reporting tips:
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