multiple instances of compiz.real

[Dieter Moerschel]

Binary package hint: compiz

Symptoms that led to bug discovery were: I noticed additional Compiz.real processes each time I played a game. (and thus switched desktop effects off so that the screensaver does not mess up)

To reproduce:
1. open appearance properties
2. switch desktop effects on/off several times
3. open a console and do: pidof compiz.real

In my case it yields this after switching compiz off/on for three times:
diddl@ubuntu:~$ pidof compiz.real
6602 6531 6460 6218

It seems not every system is affected by this bug as there has been at least one person on the forums who could not reproduce this when I described how.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed May 7 19:55:36 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: compiz 1:0.7.4-0ubuntu6
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_DK.UTF-8
SourcePackage: compiz
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-16-generic x86_64

[Dieter Moerschel (dmoer)]

Btw. Zorael on the Forums created a nice workaround for this problem:

#!/bin/bash
while true; do
 if [ "$(pidof compiz.real)" ] && [ "$(pidof metacity)" ]; then
  killall --signal=9 compiz.real
  echo CompiZombie detected and terminated
 fi
 sleep 2s
done

Of course it is still disturbing that the compiz.real processes have to be killed using signal nine ;-) But better than having hordes of dead CompizZombies populating my RAM :)

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering is this still an issue for you? Could you try to reproduce the same with Ubuntu 8.10 or 9.04? Thanks in advance.

[Dieter Moerschel (dmoer)]

Hi Pedro, after upgrading to 8.10 the issue disappeared.
likely still affects 8.04. but well not me anymore, yay :)

[Scott Howard (showard314)]

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