compiz crashed with SIGSEGV in CompositeScreen::compositingActive()

[denissius]

Crashed when start

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10
Package: compiz-core 1:0.9.10+13.10.20130927.1-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.11.0-2.1-lowlatency 3.11.0-rc5
Uname: Linux 3.11.0-2-lowlatency i686
ApportVersion: 2.12.5-0ubuntu1
Architecture: i386
CompizPlugins: [core,bailer,detection,composite,opengl,compiztoolbox,decor,resize,snap,vpswitch,imgpng,mousepoll,wall,place,grid,move,regex,gnomecompat,session,animation,expo,ezoom,workarounds,fade,scale,unityshell]
CompositorRunning: compiz
CompositorUnredirectDriverBlacklist: '(nouveau|Intel).*Mesa 8.0'
CompositorUnredirectFSW: true
Date: Tue Oct 1 12:59:37 2013
DistUpgraded: Fresh install
DistroCodename: saucy
DistroVariant: ubuntu
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/compiz
GraphicsCard: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] RV370 [Radeon X300] [1002:5b60] (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
Lsusb:
 Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
 Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
 Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
 Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
 Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
MachineType: KRAFTWAY GEG
MarkForUpload: True
ProcCmdline: compiz --replace
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=ru_RU.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.11.0-2-lowlatency root=UUID=30fa6305-1d60-4c96-9e20-b21c591d5a99 ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
SegvAnalysis:
 Segfault happened at: 0xb59113e7 <_ZN15CompositeScreen17compositingActiveEv+7>: mov 0x3c(%eax),%eax
 PC (0xb59113e7) ok
 source "0x3c(%eax)" (0x0000003c) not located in a known VMA region (needed readable region)!
 destination "%eax" ok
SegvReason: reading NULL VMA
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: compiz
StacktraceTop:
 CompositeScreen::compositingActive() () from /usr/lib/compiz/libcomposite.so
 PrivateCompositeWindow::PrivateCompositeWindow(CompWindow*, CompositeWindow*) () from /usr/lib/compiz/libcomposite.so
 CompositeWindow::CompositeWindow(CompWindow*) () from /usr/lib/compiz/libcomposite.so
 PluginClassHandler<CompositeWindow, CompWindow, 5>::get(CompWindow*) () from /usr/lib/compiz/libcomposite.so
 DecorWindow::DecorWindow(CompWindow*) () from /usr/lib/compiz/libdecor.so
Title: compiz crashed with SIGSEGV in CompositeScreen::compositingActive()
UnitySupportTest: Error: command ['/usr/lib/nux/unity_support_test', '-p', '-f'] failed with exit code 5: Error: GLX is not available on the system
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups: adm admin audio cdrom dialout dip floppy lpadmin plugdev scanner video
dmi.bios.date: 08/31/2005
dmi.bios.vendor: Award Software International, Inc.
dmi.bios.version: F2
dmi.board.name: 8I915ME
dmi.board.vendor: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.
dmi.board.version: x.x
dmi.chassis.type: 3
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAwardSoftwareInternational,Inc.:bvrF2:bd08/31/2005:svnKRAFTWAY:pnGEG:pvr:rvnGigabyteTechnologyCo.,Ltd.:rn8I915ME:rvrx.x:cvn:ct3:cvr:
dmi.product.name: GEG
dmi.sys.vendor: KRAFTWAY
version.compiz: compiz 1:0.9.10+13.10.20130927.1-0ubuntu1
version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.46-1
version.libgl1-mesa-dri: libgl1-mesa-dri 9.2-1ubuntu3
version.libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental: libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental N/A
version.libgl1-mesa-glx: libgl1-mesa-glx 9.2-1ubuntu3
version.xserver-xorg-core: xserver-xorg-core 2:1.14.2.901-2ubuntu7
version.xserver-xorg-input-evdev: xserver-xorg-input-evdev 1:2.7.3-0ubuntu3.1
version.xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver-xorg-video-ati N/A
version.xserver-xorg-video-intel: xserver-xorg-video-intel N/A
version.xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau N/A
xserver.bootTime: Wed Oct 2 05:30:22 2013
xserver.configfile: /etc/X11/xorg.conf
xserver.devices:
 input Power Button KEYBOARD, id 6
 input Power Button KEYBOARD, id 7
 input ImPS/2 Generic Wheel Mouse MOUSE, id 8
xserver.errors:

xserver.logfile: /var/log/Xorg.0.log
xserver.outputs: Output DVI-0 S-video VGA-0
xserver.version: 2:1.14.2.901-2ubuntu7
xserver.video_driver: radeon

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This crash has the same stack trace characteristics as bug #833729. However, the latter was already fixed in an earlier package version than the one in this report. This might be a regression or because the problem is in a dependent package.

[Apport retracing service (apport)]

StacktraceTop:
 CompositeScreen::compositingActive (this=0x0) at /build/buildd/compiz-0.9.10+13.10.20130927.1/plugins/composite/src/screen.cpp:471
 PrivateCompositeWindow::PrivateCompositeWindow (this=0x9e16140, w=0x9ddb6d0, cw=0x9e11b38) at /build/buildd/compiz-0.9.10+13.10.20130927.1/plugins/composite/src/window.cpp:114
 CompositeWindow::CompositeWindow (this=0x9e11b38, w=0x9ddb6d0) at /build/buildd/compiz-0.9.10+13.10.20130927.1/plugins/composite/src/window.cpp:35
 getInstance (base=0x9ddb6d0) at /build/buildd/compiz-0.9.10+13.10.20130927.1/src/pluginclasshandler/include/core/pluginclasshandler.h:300
 PluginClassHandler<CompositeWindow, CompWindow, 5>::get (base=0x9ddb6d0) at /build/buildd/compiz-0.9.10+13.10.20130927.1/src/pluginclasshandler/include/core/pluginclasshandler.h:359

[Will Cooke (willcooke)]

As part of the big bug clear up for 16.04 LTS I am marking this bug as Wont Fix.
These types of crasher are better handled by errors.ubutnu.com which can collate similar crash reports to help us identify persitent bugs rather than one-off crashes.
Sorry we are not able to help with this specific issue. If you are still experiencing this crash, please re-open the bug and add the tag "desktop-bugscrub-reopened". See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BigDesktopBugScrub for more information.