compiz freeze with cpu 100

[Davide P.]

Binary package hint: compiz

It freeze commonly on Firefox or Chromium browser, but not only...
This is really frustrating, and I have same issues with flgrx driver installed or not.
Every time that I got this problem I have to switch to console and run a "pkill -9 compiz" this make compiz restart and "solve" the issue without having to restart my Gnome session.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: compiz 1:0.9.4+bzr20110415-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-9.43-generic 2.6.38.4
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-9-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
Architecture: amd64
CompizPlugins: [core,composite,crashhandler,opengl,decor,cube,showdesktop,gnomecompat,move,compiztoolbox,neg,notification,rotate,switcher,regex,scale,text,vpswitch,mousepoll,resize,scaleaddon,winrules]
CompositorRunning: compiz
Date: Fri May 6 10:46:00 2011
DistUpgraded: Fresh install
DistroCodename: natty
DistroVariant: ubuntu
GraphicsCard:
 ATI Technologies Inc M92 [Mobility Radeon HD 4500 Series] [1002:9553] (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
   Subsystem: Lenovo Device [17aa:21bb]
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Beta amd64 (20110409)
InstallationMedia_: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Beta amd64 (20110409)
JockeyStatus: xorg:fglrx - ATI/AMD proprietary FGLRX graphics driver (Proprietary, Enabled, In use)
MachineType: LENOVO 444458G
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US:en
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.38-9-generic root=UUID=c374c295-3a43-4341-b546-a0f0cae672bf ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
ProcVersionSignature_: Ubuntu 2.6.38-9.43-generic 2.6.38.4
Renderer: Unknown
SourcePackage: compiz
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
dmi.bios.date: 12/10/2010
dmi.bios.vendor: LENOVO
dmi.bios.version: 81ET48WW (1.24 )
dmi.board.name: 444458G
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:bvr81ET48WW(1.24):bd12/10/2010:svnLENOVO:pn444458G:pvrThinkPadL512:rvnLENOVO:rn444458G:rvrNotAvailable:cvnLENOVO:ct10:cvrNotAvailable:
dmi.product.name: 444458G
dmi.product.version: ThinkPad L512
dmi.sys.vendor: LENOVO
version.compiz: compiz 1:0.9.4+bzr20110415-0ubuntu2
version.fglrx-installer: fglrx-installer N/A
version.ia32-libs: ia32-libs 20090808ubuntu13
version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.23-1ubuntu6
version.libgl1-mesa-dri: libgl1-mesa-dri 7.10.2-0ubuntu2
version.libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental: libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental N/A
version.libgl1-mesa-glx: libgl1-mesa-glx 7.10.2-0ubuntu2
version.xserver-xorg: xserver-xorg 1:7.6+4ubuntu3
version.xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:6.14.0-0ubuntu4
version.xserver-xorg-video-intel: xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.14.0-4ubuntu7.1
version.xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:0.0.16+git20110107+b795ca6e-0ubuntu7

[Aritra Dalal (aritradalal)]

How do you go to console? i've tried it, but the freeze stops all keyboard functions as well!

[Duck Tayp (ducktayp)]

I think I'm also affected by this bug. I'm running on a desktop system with an ATI Radeon HD 5670. The symptoms I'm experiencing aren't a complete hang -- the mouse cursor still works as do the Ctrl-Alt-F* combinations to flip to the console, but the whole screen is black (except for a small rectangle in the lower-right corner, but even that is unresponsive).

I've upgraded fglrx to the PPA version (2:8.850-0ubuntu1~xup2~natty) but it doesn't seem to help.

[Duck Tayp (ducktayp)]

This might be a duplicate of Bug #773564 -- when I disabled the "File Watcher" plugin for compiz the problem appears to have gone away.

[Havard Bjastad (havard-bjastad)]

I think I'm experiencing this same problem, but with the ati (open source) driver. When it freezes, I am sometimes able to do Alt-F2 to get to the console and kill compiz (and then continue operation), but most of the time it's a complete freeze - requiring a reboot.
My machine is HP Pavilion dv6, with AMD Radeon HD 6470M.

[jhfhlkjlj (fdsuufijjejejejej-deactivatedaccount)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. We are sorry that we do not always have the capacity to look at all reported bugs in a timely manner. There have been many changes in Ubuntu since that time you reported the bug and your problem may have been fixed with some of the updates. Compiz, in particular, is in heavy development and this bug may have been fixed in the development version of Ubuntu (12.04) if not on your current version. If you are able, it would be of great help if you could confirm if the bug still exists by testing a livecd (available at ubuntu.com). When you test it and it is still an issue, kindly upload the updated logs by running apport-collect <bug #> and any other logs that are relevant for this particular issue. If you are unable to test the development version, please let us know if you are able to reproduce this issue on Ubuntu 11.10.

Thank you for your help and patience.

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