Compiz causes X to freeze after clicking on a GNOME menu item after login

[Ronald J. Wright]

Hi.

I have Compiz 0.8.2 installed on a Gateway GT5040 machine running Ubuntu 9.04. However, it does not work at all with an Intel i915 VGA controller. If I try to click on a menu item in the GNOME panel after logging in, X freezes, and seconds later, black blobs begin to appear. In fact, X also freezes if I try to make any dialog or window appear on the screen in any fashion. What is expected to happen is a menu showing and X working without problems.

I suspect Compiz is causing the freezing to occur, since I tried Metacity, and X works without problems under Metacity.

I will attach pictures of the monitor display showing what happened, strace outputs of Xorg and Compiz, the GDB output of Compiz, and other pertinent information. Just in case, I will also attach the Xorg log.

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VERSION INFORMATION:
(I included versions of other packages just in case the bug is not in Compiz.)

ron@Gateway-GT5040:~$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 9.04
Release: 9.04
ron@Gateway-GT5040:~$ apt-cache policy compiz
compiz:
  Installed: 1:0.8.2-0ubuntu8
  Candidate: 1:0.8.2-0ubuntu8
  Version table:
 *** 1:0.8.2-0ubuntu8 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
ron@Gateway-GT5040:~$ apt-cache policy xserver-xorg
xserver-xorg:
  Installed: 1:7.4~5ubuntu18
  Candidate: 1:7.4~5ubuntu18
  Version table:
 *** 1:7.4~5ubuntu18 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
ron@Gateway-GT5040:~$ apt-cache policy xserver-xorg-core
xserver-xorg-core:
  Installed: 2:1.6.0-0ubuntu14
  Candidate: 2:1.6.0-0ubuntu14
  Version table:
 *** 2:1.6.0-0ubuntu14 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
ron@Gateway-GT5040:~$ apt-cache policy xserver-xorg-video-intel
xserver-xorg-video-intel:
  Installed: 2:2.6.3-0ubuntu9
  Candidate: 2:2.6.3-0ubuntu9
  Version table:
 *** 2:2.6.3-0ubuntu9 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

[Travis Watkins (amaranth)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. The issue that you reported is one that should be reproducible with the live environment of the Desktop CD of the development release - Karmic Koala. It would help us greatly if you could test with it so we can work on getting it fixed in the next release of Ubuntu. You can find out more about the development release at http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/. Thanks again and we appreciate your help.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to New. Thanks again!.