metacity assert failure: metacity: ../../src/xcb_io.c:378: _XAllocID: Assertion `ret != inval_id' failed.

[Philippe Duval]

Binary package hint: metacity

Description: Ubuntu karmic (development branch)
Release: 9.10

metacity:
  Installed: 1:2.28.0-0ubuntu1
  Candidate: 1:2.28.0-0ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 1:2.28.0-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://ie.archive.ubuntu.com karmic/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

Expected: nothing
What happenned: X died and restarted. after restart, mouse and keyboard unresponsive until reboot.

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: i386
AssertionMessage: metacity: ../../src/xcb_io.c:378: _XAllocID: Assertion `ret != inval_id' failed.
Date: Fri Oct 9 15:07:50 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/metacity
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: metacity 1:2.28.0-0ubuntu1
ProcCmdline: metacity
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_IE.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-12.41-generic
Signal: 6
SourcePackage: metacity
StacktraceTop:
 __kernel_vsyscall ()
 raise () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
 abort () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
 __assert_fail () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
 _XAllocID () from /usr/lib/libX11.so.6
Title: metacity assert failure: metacity: ../../src/xcb_io.c:378: _XAllocID: Assertion `ret != inval_id' failed.
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-12-generic i686
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare

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Thank you for taking the time to report this crash and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular crash has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug #444370, so is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Please continue to report any other bugs you may find.