unity-system-compositor crashed with SIGABRT [gbm: failed to open any driver] [std::exception::what: Failed to create GBM device]

[Trevor Wermund]

No composity works when I log into Unity

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: unity-system-compositor 0.0.2+14.04.20140311.2-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-17.37-generic 3.13.6
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-17-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.13.3-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri Mar 14 13:47:46 2014
ExecutablePath: /usr/sbin/unity-system-compositor
GraphicsCard:
 Intel Corporation 2nd Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:0116] (rev 09) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
   Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:052e]
InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-03-13 (1 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Alpha amd64 (20140312)
ProcCmdline: /usr/sbin/unity-system-compositor --file /tmp/mir_socket --from-dm-fd 10 --to-dm-fd 13 --vt 7
ProcEnviron:

Signal: 6
SourcePackage: unity-system-compositor
StacktraceTop:
 __gnu_cxx::__verbose_terminate_handler() () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6
 ?? () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6
 ?? () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6
 __gxx_personality_v0 () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6
 ?? () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1
Title: unity-system-compositor crashed with SIGABRT in __gnu_cxx::__verbose_terminate_handler()
UnitySystemCompositorLogOld:
 gbm: failed to open any driver (search paths /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri:${ORIGIN}/dri:/usr/lib/dri)failed to load driver: i965
 ERROR: /build/buildd/mir-0.1.6+14.04.20140310/src/platform/graphics/mesa/display_helpers.cpp(262): Throw in function void mir::graphics::mesa::helpers::GBMHelper::setup(const mir::graphics::mesa::helpers::DRMHelper&)
 Dynamic exception type: boost::exception_detail::clone_impl<boost::exception_detail::error_info_injector<std::runtime_error> >
 std::exception::what: Failed to create GBM device
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups:

version.libdrm: libdrm2 2.4.52-1
version.lightdm: lightdm 1.9.11-0ubuntu2
version.mesa: libegl1-mesa-dev N/A

[Apport retracing service (apport)]

StacktraceTop:
 __gnu_cxx::__verbose_terminate_handler () at ../../../../src/libstdc++-v3/libsupc++/vterminate.cc:95
 __cxxabiv1::__terminate (handler=<optimized out>) at ../../../../src/libstdc++-v3/libsupc++/eh_terminate.cc:38
 __cxa_call_terminate (ue_header=0x297d350) at ../../../../src/libstdc++-v3/libsupc++/eh_call.cc:54
 __cxxabiv1::__gxx_personality_v0 (version=<optimized out>, actions=<optimized out>, exception_class=<optimized out>, ue_header=<optimized out>, context=<optimized out>) at ../../../../src/libstdc++-v3/libsupc++/eh_personality.cc:670
 _Unwind_RaiseException_Phase2 (exc=exc@entry=0x297d350, context=context@entry=0x7fff3bd8fe10) at ../../../src/libgcc/unwind.inc:62

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

hikiko is reporting the same error, but with nouveau --> bug 1291851

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

I think the problem is lower level than the compositor. People (including myself) now get the same issues with compiz/unity: bug 1302270