Compiz crashes on alert box from Chrome, bigger then screen

[Peter Hagen]

Binary package hint: compiz

when Google Chrome displays a alert box, which exceeds the size of the screen (although it will show it from top to bottom, and not further), compiz will crash and fallback to the default window manager. The alertbox is filled with a large exception text which contains also allot of xml. This is reproducable in many situations.

Compiz 1:0.8.4-ubuntu15
google-chrome-stable 5.0.375.99-r51029
ubuntu 10.04 AMD64 with all updates installed

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: compiz 1:0.8.4-0ubuntu15
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-23.37-generic 2.6.32.15+drm33.5
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-23-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: amd64
CompizPlugins: [core,ccp,move,resize,place,decoration,text,imgjpeg,regex,workarounds,svg,png,commands,session,dbus,gnomecompat,mousepoll,vpswitch,snap,resizeinfo,animation,wall,fade,expo,shelf,scale,ezoom,staticswitcher,scaleaddon]
Date: Wed Jul 14 16:47:09 2010
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 (20100429)
MachineType: Hewlett-Packard HP xw4400 Workstation
PackageArchitecture: all
PciDisplay: 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: nVidia Corporation G71 [Quadro FX 1500] [10de:029e] (rev a1)
ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-23-generic root=UUID=1ea9281d-3b63-4aed-b5ba-b130bea285eb ro quiet splash
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.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
dmi.bios.date: 11/15/2006
dmi.bios.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
dmi.bios.version: 786D7 v02.01
dmi.board.name: 0A68h
dmi.board.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: CZC7030QRJ
dmi.chassis.type: 6
dmi.chassis.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnHewlett-Packard:bvr786D7v02.01:bd11/15/2006:svnHewlett-Packard:pnHPxw4400Workstation:pvr:rvnHewlett-Packard:rn0A68h:rvr:cvnHewlett-Packard:ct6:cvr:
dmi.product.name: HP xw4400 Workstation
dmi.sys.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
system: distro = Ubuntu, architecture = x86_64, kernel = 2.6.32-23-generic

[Travis Watkins (amaranth)]

This is intentional, Chrome tried to display a window larger than your graphics hardware can handle so the choices are to draw a solid white window you can't interact with or have compiz launch metacity so you continue having a usable system.

Compiz 0.9+ will solve this automatically by splitting the window into multiple textures but until then this is an intentional decision, not a crash, and thus I've closed it Won't Fix.