titlebars in windows disappear when opening programs like firefox

[Jay Arroyo]

Binary package hint: unity

When opening programs from the pane in unity, the GSettings program will crash, causing the titlebars of the windows to not show up anymore, rendering the windows immovable and uncloseable.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: unity 3.6.6-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-7.37-generic 2.6.38
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-7-generic i686
Architecture: i386
CompizPlugins: [core,bailer,detection,composite,opengl,decor,mousepoll,vpswitch,regex,animation,snap,expo,move,compiztoolbox,place,grid,imgpng,gnomecompat,wall,ezoom,workarounds,staticswitcher,resize,fade,unitymtgrabhandles,scale,session,unityshell]
CompositorRunning: compiz
DRM.card0.LVDS.1:
 status: connected
 enabled: enabled
 dpms: On
 modes: 1366x768
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DRM.card0.VGA.1:
 status: disconnected
 enabled: disabled
 dpms: Off
 modes:
 edid-base64:
Date: Tue Mar 22 03:11:40 2011
DistUpgraded: Fresh install
DistroCodename: natty
DistroVariant: ubuntu
GraphicsCard:
 Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller (primary) [8086:2a02] (rev 03) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
   Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device [1025:0146]
   Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device [1025:0146]
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Alpha i386 (20110302)
InstallationMedia_: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Alpha i386 (20110302)
InstallationMedia__: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Alpha i386 (20110302)
MachineType: Acer Aspire 6920
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US:en
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.38-7-generic root=UUID=44ed825a-abc2-4b7b-989a-8a5603f786cd ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
ProcVersionSignature_: Ubuntu 2.6.38-7.37-generic 2.6.38
ProcVersionSignature__: Ubuntu 2.6.38-7.37-generic 2.6.38
Renderer: Unknown
SourcePackage: unity
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
dmi.bios.date: 04/03/08
dmi.bios.vendor: Acer
dmi.bios.version: V1.06
dmi.board.name: Aspire 6920
dmi.board.vendor: Acer
dmi.board.version: Aspire 6920
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: Acer
dmi.chassis.version: N/A
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAcer:bvrV1.06:bd04/03/08:svnAcer:pnAspire6920:pvrAspire6920:rvnAcer:rnAspire6920:rvrAspire6920:cvnAcer:ct10:cvrN/A:
dmi.product.name: Aspire 6920
dmi.product.version: Aspire 6920
dmi.sys.vendor: Acer
version.compiz: compiz 1:0.9.4-0ubuntu7
version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.23-1ubuntu5
version.libgl1-mesa-glx: libgl1-mesa-glx 7.10.1-0ubuntu3
version.xserver-xorg: xserver-xorg 1:7.6~3ubuntu11
version.xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:6.14.0-0ubuntu4
version.xserver-xorg-video-intel: xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.14.0-4ubuntu4
version.xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:0.0.16+git20110107+b795ca6e-0ubuntu6

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

are there any steps to reproduce this bug? Could you also attach a screenshot of the problem.

[Alex Launi (alexlauni)]

Also a stack trace, if possible, would be ideal. How do you know gsettings is crashing?

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for unity (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

We are closing this bug report as it lacks the information, described in the previous comments, we need to investigate the problem further. However, please reopen it if you can give us the missing information and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future.