compiz crashed with SIGSEGV in af_glyph_hints_reload()

[Michał Sawicz]

Unity crashed on opening the dash.

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: unity 7.1.2+14.04.20140228-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.11.0-12.19-generic 3.11.3
Uname: Linux 3.11.0-12-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia wl
ApportVersion: 2.13.2-0ubuntu5
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Mon Mar 3 09:03:36 2014
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/compiz
ProcCmdline: compiz
SegvAnalysis:
 Segfault happened at: 0x7fb34b0ed23a: movswl 0x18(%rdx),%r12d
 PC (0x7fb34b0ed23a) ok
 source "0x18(%rdx)" (0x00000018) not located in a known VMA region (needed readable region)!
 destination "%r12d" ok
 Stack memory exhausted (SP below stack segment)
SegvReason: reading NULL VMA
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: unity
StacktraceTop:
 ?? () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libfreetype.so.6
 ?? () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libfreetype.so.6
 ?? () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libfreetype.so.6
 ?? () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libfreetype.so.6
 FT_Load_Glyph () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libfreetype.so.6
Title: compiz crashed with SIGSEGV in FT_Load_Glyph()
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups: adm autopilot cdrom dip lpadmin plugdev sambashare sbuild sudo vboxusers

[Apport retracing service (apport)]

StacktraceTop:
 af_glyph_hints_reload (hints=hints@entry=0x7fb325b66b90, outline=<optimized out>) at /build/buildd/freetype-2.5.2/freetype-2.5.2/src/autofit/afhints.c:767
 af_latin_metrics_init_widths (metrics=metrics@entry=0x7fb30803e920, face=face@entry=0x7fb308034e30) at /build/buildd/freetype-2.5.2/freetype-2.5.2/src/autofit/aflatin.c:110
 af_latin_metrics_init (metrics=0x7fb30803e920, face=0x7fb308034e30) at /build/buildd/freetype-2.5.2/freetype-2.5.2/src/autofit/aflatin.c:782
 af_face_globals_get_metrics (options=2, ametrics=<synthetic pointer>, gindex=39, globals=0x7fb30803d110) at /build/buildd/freetype-2.5.2/freetype-2.5.2/src/autofit/afglobal.c:301
 af_loader_load_glyph (load_flags=<optimized out>, gindex=<optimized out>, face=<optimized out>, module=<optimized out>) at /build/buildd/freetype-2.5.2/freetype-2.5.2/src/autofit/afloader.c:542

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

e.u.c report on https://errors.ubuntu.com/problem/62a5e02a5ec4ed62cd98c21d2ff80a5cdf6aec47

the issue seems it started in 13.10, not sure if it's unity or fontconfig though

[wgroiss (wolfgang-groiss-gmx)]

It affected me in 2 situations (i guess, is same bug ...):
When i open dash and type in to find a file on my hdd. But bug not immediately starts, there are about 5 - 10 seconds waiting.
When i try the search a 2nd time, it works. When i try another search about 1 hour later => bug again.

And i have now also problems to force my dell-notebook to go in standby. Screen becomes black for 1 or 2 seconds, network-connections stops, after that, desktop is here without changes again and network-connection is up again.
But no standbye ....