kwin crash notification visible in the tray after logon into KDE. Some extra hard drive activity on KDE startup.

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Binary package hint: kdebase-workspace

Ubuntu 9.10

KWin crash is reported systematically after system restart after upgrade from Kubuntu 9.04 to 9.10.

System is stable/usable.

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: i386
CrashCounter: 1
Date: Tue Nov 3 00:52:32 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/kwin
Package: kde-window-manager 4:4.3.2-0ubuntu7
ProcCmdline: kwin -session 10e9d7756e000124486640400000066600000_1257144591_298127
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 LANGUAGE=
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic
SegvAnalysis:
 Segfault happened at: 0xec8422 <__kernel_vsyscall+2>: ret
 PC (0x00ec8422) ok
 Reason could not be automatically determined.
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: kdebase-workspace
Stacktrace:
 #0 0x00ec8422 in __kernel_vsyscall ()
 No symbol table info available.
 Cannot access memory at address 0xbfd502fc
StacktraceTop: __kernel_vsyscall ()
ThreadStacktrace:
 .
 Thread 1 (Thread 2427):
 #0 0x00ec8422 in __kernel_vsyscall ()
 No symbol table info available.
 Cannot access memory at address 0xbfd502fc
Title: kwin crashed with SIGSEGV in __kernel_vsyscall()
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic i686
UserGroups: adm admin audio cdrom dialout dip floppy fuse lpadmin plugdev sambashare scanner video
XsessionErrors: (polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:2457): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization_value != 0' failed

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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 #479656, 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.