compiz crashed with SIGABRT in __gnu_cxx::__verbose_terminate_handler()

[Scott Cohen]

When I go to snap my VirtualBox window which is running an instance of Ubuntu 17.10 to any part of the screen compiz crashes. This is fairly annoying and has been going on for a couple of weeks.

Description: Ubuntu Artful Aardvark (development branch)
Release: 17.10

compiz:
  Installed: 1:0.9.13.1+17.10.20170720-0ubuntu1
  Candidate: 1:0.9.13.1+17.10.20170720-0ubuntu1

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 17.10
Package: compiz-core 1:0.9.13.1+17.10.20170720-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.11.0-13.19-generic 4.11.12
Uname: Linux 4.11.0-13-generic x86_64
.tmp.unity_support_test.1:

ApportVersion: 2.20.7-0ubuntu1
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
CurrentDesktop: Unity:Unity7:ubuntu
Date: Sat Sep 2 17:23:11 2017
DistUpgraded: 2017-08-11 11:30:39,829 DEBUG Running PostInstallScript: './xorg_fix_proprietary.py'
DistroCodename: artful
DistroVariant: ubuntu
DkmsStatus: tp_smapi, 0.42, 4.11.0-13-generic, x86_64: installed
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/compiz
GraphicsCard: InnoTek Systemberatung GmbH VirtualBox Graphics Adapter [80ee:beef] (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-07-20 (44 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 17.04 "Zesty Zapus" - Release amd64 (20170412)
Lsusb:
 Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
 Bus 002 Device 003: ID 80ee:0021 VirtualBox USB Tablet
 Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
MachineType: innotek GmbH VirtualBox
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/compiz
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 LANGUAGE=en_US
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-4.11.0-13-generic root=UUID=24ac11bf-512c-405c-b2b1-f2df7e2283f2 ro quiet splash
Renderer: Software
Signal: 6
SourcePackage: compiz
StacktraceTop:
 __gnu_cxx::__verbose_terminate_handler() () at /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6
 std::get_terminate() () at /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6
 ()
 std::get_unexpected() () at /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6
 ()
Title: compiz crashed with SIGABRT in __gnu_cxx::__verbose_terminate_handler()
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to artful on 2017-08-11 (22 days ago)
UserGroups: adm cdrom dip lpadmin plugdev sambashare sudo
dmi.bios.date: 12/01/2006
dmi.bios.vendor: innotek GmbH
dmi.bios.version: VirtualBox
dmi.board.name: VirtualBox
dmi.board.vendor: Oracle Corporation
dmi.board.version: 1.2
dmi.chassis.type: 1
dmi.chassis.vendor: Oracle Corporation
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvninnotekGmbH:bvrVirtualBox:bd12/01/2006:svninnotekGmbH:pnVirtualBox:pvr1.2:rvnOracleCorporation:rnVirtualBox:rvr1.2:cvnOracleCorporation:ct1:cvr:
dmi.product.name: VirtualBox
dmi.product.version: 1.2
dmi.sys.vendor: innotek GmbH
version.compiz: compiz 1:0.9.13.1+17.10.20170720-0ubuntu1
version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.82-1
version.libgl1-mesa-dri: libgl1-mesa-dri 17.2.0~rc4-0ubuntu3
version.libgl1-mesa-glx: libgl1-mesa-glx 17.2.0~rc4-0ubuntu3
version.xserver-xorg-core: xserver-xorg-core 2:1.19.3-1ubuntu5
version.xserver-xorg-input-evdev: xserver-xorg-input-evdev N/A
version.xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:7.9.0-1
version.xserver-xorg-video-intel: xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.99.917+git20170309-0ubuntu1
version.xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:1.0.15-2
xserver.bootTime: Sat Sep 2 17:23:22 2017
xserver.configfile: default
xserver.errors:
 Failed to load module "vboxvideo" (module does not exist, 0)
 Failed to load module "vboxvideo" (module does not exist, 0)
 modeset(0): glamor initialization failed
 AIGLX: reverting to software rendering
xserver.logfile: /var/log/Xorg.0.log
xserver.version: 2:1.19.3-1ubuntu5
xserver.video_driver: modeset

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Thank you for your report!

However, processing it in order to get sufficient information for the
developers failed (it does not generate a useful symbolic stack trace). This
might be caused by some outdated packages which were installed on your system
at the time of the report:

no debug symbol package found for perl-base
no debug symbol package found for perl-base
no debug symbol package found for liblttng-ust0
no debug symbol package found for libnux-4.0-0
no debug symbol package found for libunity-misc4
no debug symbol package found for libgrail6
no debug symbol package found for libframe6

Please upgrade your system to the latest package versions. If you still
encounter the crash, please file a new report.

Thank you for your understanding, and sorry for the inconvenience!