compiz crashed with SIGSEGV in g_closure_invoke()

[Larry McNaughton]

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ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.10
Package: compiz-core 1:0.9.12+14.10.20140918-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.16.0-17.23-generic 3.16.3
Uname: Linux 3.16.0-17-generic x86_64
.tmp.unity.support.test.0:

ApportVersion: 2.14.7-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
CompizPlugins: No value set for `/apps/compiz-1/general/screen0/options/active_plugins'
CompositorRunning: compiz
CompositorUnredirectDriverBlacklist: '(nouveau|Intel).*Mesa 8.0'
CompositorUnredirectFSW: true
CrashCounter: 1
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Thu Sep 25 09:52:59 2014
Disassembly: => 0x0: Cannot access memory at address 0x0
DistUpgraded: Fresh install
DistroCodename: utopic
DistroVariant: ubuntu
DkmsStatus:
 vboxhost, 4.3.12, 3.13.0-35-generic, x86_64: installed
 vboxhost, 4.3.12, 3.16.0-11-generic, x86_64: installed
 vboxhost, 4.3.12, 3.16.0-14-generic, x86_64: installed
 vboxhost, 4.3.12, 3.16.0-17-generic, x86_64: installed
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/compiz
GraphicsCard:
 Intel Corporation 2nd Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:0116] (rev 09) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
   Subsystem: Lenovo Device [17aa:21e2]
InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-05-02 (145 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64 (20140417)
MachineType: LENOVO 1143AFU
ProcCmdline: compiz
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.16.0-17-generic root=UUID=503a5a45-71fb-49a5-b7f4-bb3f5a669aae ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
SegvAnalysis:
 Segfault happened at: 0x0: Cannot access memory at address 0x0
 PC (0x00000000) not located in a known VMA region (needed executable region)!
SegvReason: executing NULL VMA
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: compiz
StacktraceTop:
 ?? ()
 g_closure_invoke () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgobject-2.0.so.0
 ?? () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgobject-2.0.so.0
 g_signal_emit_valist () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgobject-2.0.so.0
 g_signal_emit () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgobject-2.0.so.0
Title: compiz crashed with SIGSEGV in g_closure_invoke()
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups: adm cdrom dip lpadmin plugdev sambashare sudo vboxusers
dmi.bios.date: 11/03/2011
dmi.bios.vendor: LENOVO
dmi.bios.version: 8HET40WW(1.22)
dmi.board.asset.tag: Not Available
dmi.board.name: 1143AFU
dmi.board.vendor: LENOVO
dmi.board.version: Not Available
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: No Asset Information
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: LENOVO
dmi.chassis.version: Not Available
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnLENOVO:bvr8HET40WW(1.22):bd11/03/2011:svnLENOVO:pn1143AFU:pvrThinkPadE520:rvnLENOVO:rn1143AFU:rvrNotAvailable:cvnLENOVO:ct10:cvrNotAvailable:
dmi.product.name: 1143AFU
dmi.product.version: ThinkPad E520
dmi.sys.vendor: LENOVO
version.compiz: compiz 1:0.9.12+14.10.20140918-0ubuntu1
version.ia32-libs: ia32-libs N/A
version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.56-1
version.libgl1-mesa-dri: libgl1-mesa-dri 10.3.0-0ubuntu1
version.libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental: libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental N/A
version.libgl1-mesa-glx: libgl1-mesa-glx 10.3.0-0ubuntu1
version.xserver-xorg-core: xserver-xorg-core 2:1.16.0-1ubuntu1
version.xserver-xorg-input-evdev: xserver-xorg-input-evdev 1:2.9.0-1ubuntu2
version.xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:7.4.0-2ubuntu2
version.xserver-xorg-video-intel: xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.99.914-1~exp1ubuntu3
version.xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:1.0.11-1ubuntu2
xserver.bootTime: Thu Sep 25 09:52:43 2014
xserver.configfile: default
xserver.logfile: /var/log/Xorg.0.log
xserver.outputs:
 product id 12626
 vendor SEC
xserver.version: 2:1.16.0-1ubuntu1

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