Comiz crashes often - without falling back to Metacity

[Rainer Rohde]

Binary package hint: compiz

Natty, Alpha 3

Compiz seems to crash quite often on me, and when it crashes, I completely lose the ability to interact with any of the windows because there is no fall-back to another window manager, e.g. Metacity. For some reason I also don't have any keyboard input anymore - I can click, but I cannot type anything anymore.

What I would expect is that when Compiz crashes, it immediately falls back to Metacity so I can at least continue working or saving open documents before relaunching GDM. As a workaround for now, I've made a desktop launcher that relaunches Compiz when double-clicking on it, but this surely can't be the solution.

BTW - Compiz seems to crash most often when opening or minimizing Evolution for some reason...

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: compiz 1:0.9.4-0ubuntu4
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-6.34-generic 2.6.38-rc7
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-6-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia wl
.proc.driver.nvidia.gpus.0: Error: [Errno 21] Is a directory: '/proc/driver/nvidia/gpus/0'
.proc.driver.nvidia.registry: Binary: ""
.proc.driver.nvidia.version:
 NVRM version: NVIDIA UNIX x86_64 Kernel Module 270.29 Wed Feb 23 16:18:35 PST 2011
 GCC version: gcc version 4.5.2 (Ubuntu/Linaro 4.5.2-5ubuntu2)
Architecture: amd64
CompizPlugins: [core,bailer,detection,composite,opengl,decor,compiztoolbox,move,resize,vpswitch,grid,regex,imgpng,place,dbus,mousepoll,snap,gnomecompat,session,animation,expo,ezoom,wall,workarounds,staticswitcher,fade,scale,unityshell]
CompositorRunning: compiz
Date: Fri Mar 11 09:43:14 2011
DistUpgraded: Log time: 2011-02-17 01:15:53.203550
DistroCodename: natty
DistroVariant: ubuntu
GraphicsCard:
 nVidia Corporation G96 [GeForce 9600M GT] [10de:0647] (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
   Subsystem: Apple Computer Inc. Device [106b:00b0]
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Alpha amd64+mac (20110210)
InstallationMedia_: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Alpha amd64+mac (20110210)
JockeyStatus:
 kmod:wl - Broadcom STA wireless driver (Proprietary, Enabled, In use) [auto-install]
 xorg:nvidia_current - NVIDIA accelerated graphics driver (Proprietary, Enabled, In use)
MachineType: Apple Inc. MacBookPro5,2
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US:en
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.38-6-generic root=UUID=52bd88e3-acba-44e9-8147-07861dd8b76a ro quiet splash acpi_apic_instance=2 vt.handoff=7
ProcVersionSignature_: Ubuntu 2.6.38-6.34-generic 2.6.38-rc7
Renderer: Unknown
SourcePackage: compiz
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-03-08 (2 days ago)
dmi.bios.date: 05/04/09
dmi.bios.vendor: Apple Inc.
dmi.bios.version: MBP52.88Z.008E.B05.0905042202
dmi.board.asset.tag: Base Board Asset Tag#
dmi.board.name: Mac-F2268EC8
dmi.board.vendor: Apple Inc.
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: Asset Tag#
dmi.chassis.type: 8
dmi.chassis.vendor: Apple Inc.
dmi.chassis.version: Mac-F2268EC8
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAppleInc.:bvrMBP52.88Z.008E.B05.0905042202:bd05/04/09:svnAppleInc.:pnMacBookPro5,2:pvr1.0:rvnAppleInc.:rnMac-F2268EC8:rvr:cvnAppleInc.:ct8:cvrMac-F2268EC8:
dmi.product.name: MacBookPro5,2
dmi.product.version: 1.0
dmi.sys.vendor: Apple Inc.
version.compiz: compiz 1:0.9.4-0ubuntu4
version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.23-1ubuntu3
version.libgl1-mesa-glx: libgl1-mesa-glx 7.10.1-0ubuntu1
version.nvidia-graphics-drivers: nvidia-graphics-drivers N/A
version.xserver-xorg: xserver-xorg 1:7.6~3ubuntu11
version.xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:6.14.0-0ubuntu2
version.xserver-xorg-video-intel: xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.14.0-4ubuntu1
version.xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:0.0.16+git20110107+b795ca6e-0ubuntu5

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

Thanks for the bug report. With the latest version of unity and compiz in natty this is not the case. Unity automatically restart after a crash.