compiz crashed with SIGSEGV in CompPlugin::windowInitPlugins()

[David Barth]

Binary package hint: compiz

Compiz crashes, can't restart it after the crash, ie compiz --replace keeps crashing. Seems to be a buggy damage event that keeps crashing code in the composite plugin. This happens quite often on my system, using a radeon card.

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: compiz-core 1:0.9.2.1+glibmainloop2-0ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.37-7.18-generic 2.6.37-rc3
Uname: Linux 2.6.37-7-generic i686
Architecture: i386
CompizPlugins: No value set for `/apps/compiz/general/allscreens/options/active_plugins'
Date: Wed Dec 1 09:48:07 2010
Disassembly: => 0x1: Cannot access memory at address 0x1
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/compiz
MachineType: LENOVO 200783U
PccardctlIdent:
 Socket 0:
   no product info available
PccardctlStatus:
 Socket 0:
   no card
PciDisplay: 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: ATI Technologies Inc M56GL [Mobility FireGL V5200] [1002:71c4] (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
ProcCmdline: compiz --replace
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.37-7-generic root=UUID=d71a3bd3-9679-4649-b4ac-ce425d0e5bed ro quiet splash bootchart=disable
RelatedPackageVersions:
 xserver-xorg 1:7.5+6ubuntu3b1
 libgl1-mesa-glx 7.9+repack-1ubuntu2
 libdrm2 2.4.22-2ubuntu1
 xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.13.0-1ubuntu1
 xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:6.13.2-1ubuntu2
SegvAnalysis:
 Segfault happened at: 0x1: Cannot access memory at address 0x1
 PC (0x00000001) not located in a known VMA region (needed executable region)!
SegvReason: executing NULL VMA
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: compiz
StacktraceTop:
 ?? ()
 CompPlugin::windowInitPlugins(CompWindow*) ()
 CompWindow::CompWindow(unsigned long, unsigned long) ()
 CompScreen::handleEvent(_XEvent*) ()
 PrivateCompositeScreen::handleEvent(_XEvent*) () from /usr/lib/compiz/libcomposite.so
Title: compiz crashed with SIGSEGV in CompPlugin::windowInitPlugins()
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare
XorgConf: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/etc/X11/xorg.conf'
dmi.bios.date: 09/12/2008
dmi.bios.vendor: LENOVO
dmi.bios.version: 79ETE3WW (2.23 )
dmi.board.name: 200783U
dmi.board.vendor: LENOVO
dmi.board.version: Not Available
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: No Asset Information
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: LENOVO
dmi.chassis.version: Not Available
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnLENOVO:bvr79ETE3WW(2.23):bd09/12/2008:svnLENOVO:pn200783U:pvrThinkPadT60p:rvnLENOVO:rn200783U:rvrNotAvailable:cvnLENOVO:ct10:cvrNotAvailable:
dmi.product.name: 200783U
dmi.product.version: ThinkPad T60p
dmi.sys.vendor: LENOVO
system: distro = Ubuntu, architecture = i686, kernel = 2.6.37-7-generic

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StacktraceTop:
 ?? ()
 CompWindow::CompWindow ()
 CompScreen::handleEvent ()
 ?? ()
ThreadStacktrace:

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

it's similar to bug #683293

[fejes (anthony-fejes)]

For me, the seg-fault was caused by not having installed the compiz-kde package. Once it was installed, compiz began to run without issues. Of course, the Compiz default settings are now to have everything turned off, including window decorations, so even once it began working, it didn't look like it was working. Anyhow, problem solved or me. No more segfaults.

[wayman (kotpes)]

same on my netbook Acer Aspire One 532h

[Sam Spilsbury (smspillaz)]

I've not seen this issue myself and nobody has had this bug for a while so I'm going to mark it invalid unless someone can give me instructions on how to reproduce it with the exact same stacktrace.