compiz crashed with SIGSEGV in SmcSetProperties()

[Abe Birnbaum]

First entryu to cinnamon desktop in 18.04

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
Package: compiz-core 1:0.9.13.1+18.04.20180302-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.15.0-15.16-generic 4.15.15
Uname: Linux 4.15.0-15-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
.tmp.unity_support_test.0:

ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu5
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: Tue Apr 17 14:02:53 2018
DistUpgraded: Fresh install
DistroCodename: bionic
DistroVariant: ubuntu
DkmsStatus:
 bcmwl, 6.30.223.271+bdcom, 4.15.0-13-generic, x86_64: installed
 bcmwl, 6.30.223.271+bdcom, 4.15.0-15-generic, x86_64: installed
 virtualbox, 5.2.8, 4.15.0-13-generic, x86_64: installed
 virtualbox, 5.2.8, 4.15.0-15-generic, x86_64: installed
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/compiz
GraphicsCard:
 NVIDIA Corporation C79 [GeForce 9400M] [10de:0863] (rev b1) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
   Subsystem: Apple Inc. C79 [GeForce 9400M] [106b:00b9]
InstallationDate: Installed on 2018-03-25 (23 days ago)
InstallationMedia: budgie-remix 16.04.3 "Budgie-remix" - Release amd64 (20170804)
MachineType: Apple Inc. MacBookPro5,5
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/compiz
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-4.15.0-15-generic.efi.signed root=/dev/mapper/budgie--remix--vg-root ro quiet splash vt.handoff=1
SegvAnalysis:
 Segfault happened at: 0x7f504a4c0566 <SmcSetProperties+70>: movl $0x0,0x4(%rbx)
 PC (0x7f504a4c0566) ok
 source "$0x0" ok
 destination "0x4(%rbx)" (0x00000004) not located in a known VMA region (needed writable region)!
SegvReason: writing NULL VMA
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: compiz
StacktraceTop:
 SmcSetProperties () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libSM.so.6
 ?? () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcompiz_core.so.ABI-20180221
 CompSession::close() () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcompiz_core.so.ABI-20180221
 CompManager::fini() ()
 main ()
Title: compiz crashed with SIGSEGV in SmcSetProperties()
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups: libvirt libvirtd sudo
dmi.bios.date: 06/15/09
dmi.bios.vendor: Apple Inc.
dmi.bios.version: MBP55.88Z.00AC.B03.0906151708
dmi.board.asset.tag: Base Board Asset Tag#
dmi.board.name: Mac-F2268AC8
dmi.board.vendor: Apple Inc.
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: Asset Tag#
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: Apple Inc.
dmi.chassis.version: Mac-F2268AC8
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAppleInc.:bvrMBP55.88Z.00AC.B03.0906151708:bd06/15/09:svnAppleInc.:pnMacBookPro5,5:pvr1.0:rvnAppleInc.:rnMac-F2268AC8:rvr:cvnAppleInc.:ct10:cvrMac-F2268AC8:
dmi.product.family: MacBook
dmi.product.name: MacBookPro5,5
dmi.product.version: 1.0
dmi.sys.vendor: Apple Inc.
version.compiz: compiz 1:0.9.13.1+18.04.20180302-0ubuntu1
version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.91-2
version.libgl1-mesa-dri: libgl1-mesa-dri 18.0.0~rc5-1ubuntu1
version.libgl1-mesa-glx: libgl1-mesa-glx 18.0.0~rc5-1ubuntu1
version.xserver-xorg-core: xserver-xorg-core 2:1.19.6-1ubuntu3
version.xserver-xorg-input-evdev: xserver-xorg-input-evdev 1:2.10.5-1ubuntu1
version.xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:18.0.1-1
version.xserver-xorg-video-intel: xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.99.917+git20171229-1
version.xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:1.0.15-2
xserver.bootTime: Tue Apr 17 14:03:04 2018
xserver.configfile: default
xserver.errors:

xserver.logfile: /var/log/Xorg.0.log
xserver.version: 2:1.19.6-1ubuntu3
xserver.video_driver: nouveau

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