unity crashes with nouveau 3d drivers (libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental

[Doug McMahon]

Binary package hint: unity

The current unity (3.4) will allow a login to the Ubuntu Desktop but unity/compiz immediately crash. Attempts to restart show this

 compiz: nv50_pc_emit.c:863: emit_flop: Assertion `STYPE(i, 0) == 0x09' failed.
Aborted (core dumped)

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: unity 3.4.0-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-1.28-generic 2.6.38-rc2
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-1-generic i686
Architecture: i386
CompizPlugins: No value set for `/apps/compiz-1/general/screen0/options/active_plugins'
CompositorRunning: compiz
DRM.card0.HDMI.A.1:
 status: disconnected
 enabled: disabled
 dpms: Off
 modes:
 edid-base64:
DRM.card0.LVDS.1:
 status: connected
 enabled: enabled
 dpms: On
 modes: 1280x800 1024x768 800x600 640x480 720x400 640x400 640x350
 edid-base64: AP///////wAwZAYjOTAwNysRAQOAHRJ4Cof1lFdPjCcnUFQAAAABAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBKhwAqFAgHjAQMCIAH7QQAAAYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA/gBSUDc3NKMxMzNFV0REAAAA/gAIDBAUKFB/2AEBCiAgAMo=
DRM.card0.VGA.1:
 status: disconnected
 enabled: disabled
 dpms: Off
 modes:
 edid-base64:
Date: Wed Feb 2 12:19:39 2011
DistUpgraded: Fresh install
DistroCodename: natty
DistroVariant: ubuntu
DkmsStatus:

GdmLog1: Not present
GdmLog2: Not present
GraphicsCard: Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:0209]
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Alpha i386 (20110131)
InstallationMedia_: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Alpha i386 (20110131)
MachineType: Dell Inc. XPS M1330
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US:en
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 LC_MESSAGES=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.38-1-generic root=UUID=7f8dc5bb-6147-448c-bc75-a36b508b0d27 ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
ProcVersionSignature_: Ubuntu 2.6.38-1.28-generic 2.6.38-rc2
Renderer: Hardware acceleration
SourcePackage: unity
dmi.bios.date: 12/26/2008
dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.bios.version: A15
dmi.board.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.chassis.type: 8
dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnDellInc.:bvrA15:bd12/26/2008:svnDellInc.:pnXPSM1330:pvr:rvnDellInc.:rn:rvr:cvnDellInc.:ct8:cvr:
dmi.product.name: XPS M1330
dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Inc.
version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.23-1ubuntu3
version.libgl1-mesa-glx: libgl1-mesa-glx 7.10-1ubuntu1
version.xserver-xorg: xserver-xorg 1:7.5+6ubuntu8
version.xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:6.13.2+git20110124.fadee040-0ubuntu1
version.xserver-xorg-video-intel: xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.14.0-1ubuntu2
version.xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:0.0.16+git20110107+b795ca6e-0ubuntu1

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

xserver update regression. duplicate bug 710588