Compiz crashes after leaving a fullscreen application

[Tim Fuchs]

Binary package hint: compiz

Compiz crashes when using applications fullscreen. Crash can be reproduced with totem, firefox, chrome, evince, basically everything that has a fullscreen mode.

It does not crash everytime but every second or third.

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: i386
CheckboxSubmission: 48a5398b7fdba0364e52d65ed9ab0575
CheckboxSystem: f7e8b2058e73d899cd2bf5b9df7c26dc
CompizPlugins: [core,move,resize,place,decoration,animation,ccp,gconf,vpswitch,png,extrawm,text,imgjpeg,gnomecompat,mousepoll,session,workarounds,svg,dbus,shift,regex,resizeinfo,fade,cube,blur,snap,scale,reflex,showdesktop,neg,showmouse,scaleaddon,rotate,video,cubeaddon,expo,ezoom,switcher]
CrashCounter: 1
Date: Tue Sep 29 19:34:57 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/compiz.real
MachineType: Dell Inc. XPS M1330
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: compiz-core 1:0.8.3+git20090917-0ubuntu4
PciDisplay: 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: nVidia Corporation G86 [GeForce 8400M GS] [10de:0427] (rev a1)
ProcCmdLine: root=UUID=e7fff045-26d2-4711-acf8-029684a416e0 ro quiet splash
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/compiz.real --ignore-desktop-hints --replace --sm-client-id 10fccf3cfa51444b78125422798093336200000017560034 --loose-binding move resize place decoration animation ccp
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-11.36-generic
RelatedPackageVersions:
 xserver-xorg 1:7.4+3ubuntu5
 libgl1-mesa-glx 7.6.0~git20090817.7c422387-0ubuntu6
 libdrm2 2.4.13-1ubuntu1
 xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.8.1-1ubuntu2
 xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:6.12.99+git20090825.fc74e119-0ubuntu2
SegvAnalysis:
 Segfault happened at: 0x16a2114: mov %eax,0x44(%edx)
 PC (0x016a2114) ok
 source "%eax" ok
 destination "0x44(%edx)" (0x00000044) not located in a known VMA region (needed writable region)!
SegvReason: writing NULL VMA
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: compiz
StacktraceTop:
 ?? () from /usr/lib/libGLcore.so.1
 ?? () from /usr/lib/libGL.so.1
 ?? ()
Title: compiz.real crashed with SIGSEGV
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-11-generic i686
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare
dmi.bios.date: 11/19/2008
dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.bios.version: A14
dmi.board.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.chassis.type: 8
dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnDellInc.:bvrA14:bd11/19/2008:svnDellInc.:pnXPSM1330:pvr:rvnDellInc.:rn:rvr:cvnDellInc.:ct8:cvr:
dmi.product.name: XPS M1330
dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Inc.
system: distro = Ubuntu, architecture = i686, kernel = 2.6.31-11-generic

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StacktraceTop:?? () from /usr/lib/libGLcore.so.1
?? () from /usr/lib/libGL.so.1
?? ()

[NRD (nickdecarlo)]

I'm also having hard lock ups here requiring a alt+sysrq REISUB to reboot. Noticing it happen while playing the openGL game Wolfenstein:Enemy Territory while compiz is enabled. Just wanted to add an 'also affected'

[daf (davydm)]

I would imagine that my problem is related here: the OpenGL screensaver BlinkBox has, on numerous occasions, appeared to cause Compiz to freak out and die after a period of usage (ie, not immediately when the screensaver starts up, but after a while, when I come back to my machine, it appears to be locked up). Sometimes I can get my machine back into a decent state by turning off compiz and turning it back on again. Sometimes X is so unresponsive that I have to restart gdm. Once, the whole machine appeared to be completely locked up and I had to reboot.

I didn't have this issue with Jaunty -- but it may be related rather to the drivers? I've noticed some people having issues with the nvidia 185 drivers (and we can't install the previously working 180 drivers because it's just a dummy package ): ).

I'm about to try installing the 173 drivers to see if that fixes the problem. Alternatively, I'll try the nvidia ppa with the latest beta drivers (at my own risk, of course (: )

[daf (davydm)]

Ok, so I can't install the 173 drivers -- which would explain why jocky only gives me the option of the 185 drivers...

But the 190 drivers from the ppa mentioned at: http://www.ubuntugeek.com/howto-install-nvidia-190-25-beta-drivers-in-ubuntu-jauntyintrepidhardy.html are giving me more joy -- I left my machine for the day and came back to *no* graphics corruption (something new for my Karmic system). So perhaps the problem isn't compiz -- *perhaps* the problem is just simply badly QA'd proprietary drivers with no backup to previously known good drivers (ie, the 180 series).

[bugbot (bugbot)]

This bug report was filed against an old version of Ubuntu.
Can you confirm whether this is still an issue in natty?

If you don't mind, it would be very helpful if you could update the bug
report in launchpad to 'Fix Released' if it is no longer an issue for
you, or if it is still occurring under natty, please tag the bug 'natty'
so it's easier for us to track.

[bugbot (bugbot)]

We're closing this bug since it is has been some time with no response from the original reporter. However, if the issue still exists please feel free to reopen with the requested information. Also, if you could, please test against the latest development version of Ubuntu, since this confirms the bug is one we may be able to pass upstream for help.