compiz.real crashed with SIGSEGV in _nv000065gl()

[Chris Coulson]

Binary package hint: compiz

I'm seeing this crash immediately upon logging in for the first time after booting my machine. However, I can successfully start Compiz manually after the crash by going to System -> Preferences -> Appearance and enabling desktop effects, or typing "compiz --replace" in to a terminal.

I can log out and back in repeatedly after this and Compiz won't crash until I reboot the machine.

Graphics card is a NVIDIA 8800GT and I'm using the 173.14.12 driver installed using Envy.

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Aug 28 17:41:54 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/compiz.real
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: compiz-core 1:0.7.4-0ubuntu7
PackageArchitecture: amd64
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/compiz.real --ignore-desktop-hints --replace --loose-binding --sm-client-id default0 core ccp
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/games:/opt/bin:/opt/share/modeltech/linux_x86_64:/opt/games
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: compiz
StacktraceTop:
 ?? () from /usr/lib/libGL.so.1
 ?? () from /usr/lib/libGL.so.1
 ?? () from /usr/lib/libGLcore.so.1
 _nv000065gl () from /usr/lib/libGLcore.so.1
 ?? () from /usr/lib/libGL.so.1
Title: compiz.real crashed with SIGSEGV in _nv000065gl()
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-21-generic x86_64
UserGroups: adm admin audio cdrom chrisandjo-rw dialout dip fax floppy fuse lpadmin plugdev pulse-rt sambashare scanner shared-rw tape tilp video vmware xp-write

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

nvidia driver bug

[Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson)]

I thought so. I've reported this to NVIDIA.

[Apport retracing service (apport)]

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[Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman)]

Hi,
Unfortunately, the automated bug reporter was not able to salvage a good report out of the crash. Furthermore, from what little info is present it does appear that this is a problem with the graphics drivers for your nvidia card. Unfortunately, the nvidia video drivers are closed-source pieces of software, meaning that Ubuntu developers have no access to modify it or fix bugs in it, only nvidia can.

Thanks for your understanding, and have a nice day.