metacity crashed on updating

[Michael1976nyc]

Binary package hint: metacity

1) Ubuntu karmic (development branch) Release: 9.10
2) Installed: 1:2.28.0-0ubuntu1
  Candidate: 1:2.28.0-0ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 1:2.28.0-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com karmic/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
3) I expected the regular updating process.
4) There was no restart request but nevertheless the pc restarted. There was the regular login screen but the password could not be entered. The complete system was hanging. I had to do a cold restart.

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: i386
AssertionMessage: metacity: ../../src/xcb_io.c:378: _XAllocID: Assertion `ret != inval_id' failed.
Date: Tue Oct 13 19:51:49 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/metacity
Package: metacity 1:2.28.0-0ubuntu1
ProcCmdline: metacity
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-13.45-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
Tags: ubuntu-unr
Title: metacity assert failure: metacity: ../../src/xcb_io.c:378: _XAllocID: Assertion `ret != inval_id' failed.
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-13-generic i686
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare
XsessionErrors:
 (gnome-settings-daemon:1848): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_propagate_error: assertion `src != NULL' failed
 (gnome-settings-daemon:1848): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_propagate_error: assertion `src != NULL' failed
 (polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:1901): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization_value != 0' failed
 (gnome-panel:1879): Gdk-WARNING **: /build/buildd/gtk+2.0-2.18.2/gdk/x11/gdkdrawable-x11.c:952 drawable is not a pixmap or window

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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.