compiz stops working and window decoration goes away

[Santiago Roland]

Binary package hint: compiz

Several things went wrong. Gome theme switched to default root theme, and compiz window decoration disappeared, some interference distortion is shown in the desktop icons and trying to execute compiz from terminal guives this error.

sabrina@ampro:~$ compiz --replace
WARNING: Application calling GLX 1.3 function "glXCreatePixmap" when GLX 1.3 is not supported! This is an application bug!
drmRadeonCmdBuffer: -12. Kernel failed to parse or rejected command stream. See dmesg for more info.
sabrina@ampro:~$

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: compiz 1:0.8.4-0ubuntu15
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-22.33-generic 2.6.32.11+drm33.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-22-generic i686
Architecture: i386
CompizPlugins: [core,ccp,move,resize,place,decoration,dbus,mousepoll,gnomecompat,png,svg,imgjpeg,text,commands,neg,wall,snap,animation,scale,scaleaddon,expo,staticswitcher,regex,resizeinfo,workarounds,ezoom,vpswitch,fade,session]
Date: Wed May 19 20:56:18 2010
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100429)
MachineType: System manufacturer System Product Name
PackageArchitecture: all
PciDisplay: 01:05.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: ATI Technologies Inc RC410 [Radeon Xpress 200] [1002:5a61]
ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-22-generic root=UUID=00d1cdf7-690e-4d33-881c-d508a1217350 ro quiet splash
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=es_UY.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
RelatedPackageVersions:
 xserver-xorg 1:7.5+5ubuntu1
 libgl1-mesa-glx 7.7.1-1ubuntu3
 libdrm2 2.4.18-1ubuntu3
 xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.9.1-3ubuntu5
 xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:6.13.0-1ubuntu5
SourcePackage: compiz
XorgConf: Error: [Errno 2] No existe el fichero ó directorio: '/etc/X11/xorg.conf'
dmi.bios.date: 07/17/2006
dmi.bios.vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
dmi.bios.version: 1104
dmi.board.asset.tag: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
dmi.board.name: P5RD1-VM
dmi.board.vendor: ASUSTeK Computer INC.
dmi.board.version: Rev 1.xx
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: Asset-1234567890
dmi.chassis.type: 3
dmi.chassis.vendor: Chassis Manufacture
dmi.chassis.version: Chassis Version
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAmericanMegatrendsInc.:bvr1104:bd07/17/2006:svnSystemmanufacturer:pnSystemProductName:pvrSystemVersion:rvnASUSTeKComputerINC.:rnP5RD1-VM:rvrRev1.xx:cvnChassisManufacture:ct3:cvrChassisVersion:
dmi.product.name: System Product Name
dmi.product.version: System Version
dmi.sys.vendor: System manufacturer
system: distro = Ubuntu, architecture = i686, kernel = 2.6.32-22-generic

[Santiago Roland (santiago-roland)]

Trying Alt+F2 ---> gnome-settings-daemon restrored the theme... so i suppose that app crashed too.

[Santiago Roland (santiago-roland)]

in the screenshots it can be seen that the "o" letter is somehow distorted and appears as a strange "M", like from another font type. The other observation is that this is metacity window manager... so, this bug is not only happening in compiz. The other important observation is that the problem was solved restarting firefox and later restarting metacity. Restarting metacity with firefox distorted did not fixed the problem.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thanks for the report, it has been some time without any response or feedback in this bug report and we are wondering if this is still an issue for you with the latest release of Ubuntu the Natty Narwhal, May you please test with that version and comment back if you're still having or not the issue? Please have a look at http://www.ubuntu.com/download to know how to install that version.Thanks in advance and sorry for the late response.

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