compiz crashed with signal 7 in malloc_consolidate()

[Mike Holmes]

Just updated to 17.10 i3 does not work, have to use unity

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 17.10
Package: compiz-core 1:0.9.13.1+17.10.20170901-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.13.0-16.19-lowlatency 4.13.4
Uname: Linux 4.13.0-16-lowlatency x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_uvm nvidia wl
.proc.driver.nvidia.gpus.0000.01.00.0: Error: [Errno 21] Is a directory: '/proc/driver/nvidia/gpus/0000:01:00.0'
.proc.driver.nvidia.registry: Binary: ""
.proc.driver.nvidia.version:
 NVRM version: NVIDIA UNIX x86_64 Kernel Module 340.104 Thu Sep 14 17:13:13 PDT 2017
 GCC version: gcc version 7.2.0 (Ubuntu 7.2.0-8ubuntu3)
.proc.driver.nvidia.warnings.fbdev:
 Your system is not currently configured to drive a VGA console
 on the primary VGA device. The NVIDIA Linux graphics driver
 requires the use of a text-mode VGA console. Use of other console
 drivers including, but not limited to, vesafb, may result in
 corruption and stability problems, and is not supported.
.tmp.unity_support_test.0:

ApportVersion: 2.20.7-0ubuntu3
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: Sun Oct 22 15:42:18 2017
DistUpgraded: 2017-10-22 15:01:07,224 DEBUG icon theme changed, re-reading
DistroCodename: artful
DistroVariant: ubuntu
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/compiz
GraphicsCard:
 NVIDIA Corporation GK104 [GeForce GTX 760] [10de:1187] (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
   Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. [MSI] GK104 [GeForce GTX 760] [1462:2847]
InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-04-19 (550 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 16.04 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release amd64 (20160417.1)
LightdmDisplayLog: (II) Server terminated successfully (0). Closing log file.
MachineType: Dell Inc. XPS 8700
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/compiz
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 PATH=(custom, user)
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-4.13.0-16-lowlatency root=UUID=d6248b70-a635-4532-8ff2-a5be58e3a3ef ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
Signal: 7
SourcePackage: compiz
StacktraceTop:
 malloc_consolidate (av=av@entry=0x7faeb8d0bc20 <main_arena>) at malloc.c:4491
 _int_free (av=0x7faeb8d0bc20 <main_arena>, p=<optimized out>, have_lock=0) at malloc.c:4397
 __GI___libc_free (mem=<optimized out>) at malloc.c:3144
 () at /usr/lib/nvidia-340/libGL.so.1
 () at /usr/lib/nvidia-340/libnvidia-glcore.so.340.104
Title: compiz crashed with signal 7 in malloc_consolidate()
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to artful on 2017-10-22 (0 days ago)
UserGroups: adm cdrom dip docker lpadmin lxd plugdev sambashare sudo
dmi.bios.date: 07/09/2015
dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.bios.version: A11
dmi.board.name: 0KWVT8
dmi.board.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.board.version: A03
dmi.chassis.type: 3
dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnDellInc.:bvrA11:bd07/09/2015:svnDellInc.:pnXPS8700:pvr:rvnDellInc.:rn0KWVT8:rvrA03:cvnDellInc.:ct3:cvr:
dmi.product.family: To be filled by O.E.M.
dmi.product.name: XPS 8700
dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Inc.
version.compiz: compiz 1:0.9.13.1+17.10.20170901-0ubuntu1
version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.83-1
version.libgl1-mesa-dri: libgl1-mesa-dri 17.2.2-0ubuntu1
version.libgl1-mesa-glx: libgl1-mesa-glx 17.2.2-0ubuntu1
version.nvidia-graphics-drivers: nvidia-graphics-drivers-* N/A
version.xserver-xorg-core: xserver-xorg-core 2:1.19.5-0ubuntu2
version.xserver-xorg-input-evdev: xserver-xorg-input-evdev 1:2.10.5-1ubuntu1
version.xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:7.10.0-1
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: Sun Oct 22 15:46:21 2017
xserver.configfile: default
xserver.errors:

xserver.logfile: /var/log/Xorg.0.log
xserver.outputs:

xserver.version: 2:1.19.5-0ubuntu2

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Thank you for taking the time to report this crash and helping to make this software better. This particular crash has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug #1724274, so is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Please continue to report any other bugs you may find.