Settings lost after crash

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I'm not sure which component are involved in this bug .. Anyhow, time to time Gnome (with desktop effect enabled) crashes, become unresponsive to the point where I have to kill Xorg. Sometimes it just reboot by itself.

The thing is, when I return to gnome, all my compiz settings are gone. They're back to default.

It's really annoying. It occurs at work and at home, at least once a week.

My two PC are AMD 64 running Ubuntu Hardy (32bit) with compiz enabled. Both video card are Nvidia.

Today I got really tired of it and I decided to scan my system log for something unusual, I found that before the crash
occurs, there is lots of process that get killed with a "out of memory" message. It's pretty much unlikely that my systems lacks of memory to run Ubuntu .. both have 4GB of ram.

I'm using 2.6.24-19-generic kernel at work and 2.6.24-19-server at home (to get the full 4GB of ram instead of 3.2)

[Andres Mujica (andres.mujica)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This bug did not have a package associated with it, which is important for ensuring that it gets looked at by the proper developers. You can learn more about finding the right package at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/FindRightPackage . I have classified this bug as a bug in COMPIZ.
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[Robert Ancell (robert-ancell)]

Thanks for your bug report. Is this occuring with Ubuntu 8.10 or 9.04 beta?

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@Robert Ancell

Well at the time I reported this bug I'm pretty sure I was on 8.04.

Now I'm on 8.10 and the crashes are mostly gone but times to time when Compiz crash expectingly, I still occasionally lose all my Compiz preferences. I exported my them into a flat file and reload them when they vanish, but it's still mildly annoying.

I remember trying to switch from the gconf backend to flat file and it didn't help much.

I wish I could give you more details..

[Robert Ancell (robert-ancell)]

Thanks for the feedback. I'll mark this as a "all settings lost after crash" as that seems to be the worst behaviour here (crashing is what compiz does well ;) ). It's low importance as others don't seem to be getting the problem so if you are shout out if this is widespread.

[jhfhlkjlj (fdsuufijjejejejej-deactivatedaccount)]

I believe that bug 256403 has fixed this issue. Marking as dupe.