unity components stay in the background

[DavidW617]

The application launcher and the window switcher (alt+tab thingie) will once in a while move to the background and then stay there. I have attached screenshots to demonstrate the problem. This happens daily and the only way I know to fix it is to restart X.

Description: Ubuntu oneiric (development branch)
Release: 11.10

unity:
  Installed: 4.22.0-0ubuntu3
  Candidate: 4.22.0-0ubuntu3
  Version table:
 *** 4.22.0-0ubuntu3 0
        500 http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ oneiric/main i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

compiz:
  Installed: 1:0.9.6+bzr20110929-0ubuntu3
  Candidate: 1:0.9.6+bzr20110929-0ubuntu3
  Version table:
 *** 1:0.9.6+bzr20110929-0ubuntu3 0
        500 http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ oneiric/main i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: unity 4.22.0-0ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.19-generic 3.0.4
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
.tmp.unity.support.test.0:

ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu2
Architecture: i386
CheckboxSubmission: 4f5564c50a42755fd0a913a86e07ee6a
CheckboxSystem: b845c366ea09c60efa3a45c1b5b21525
CompizPlugins: [core,bailer,detection,composite,opengl,decor,mousepoll,wall,compiztoolbox,grid,gnomecompat,regex,animation,fade,move,place,imgpng,snap,unitymtgrabhandles,vpswitch,resize,scale,expo,session,workarounds,ezoom,unityshell]
CompositorRunning: compiz
Date: Fri Oct 7 14:59:41 2011
DistUpgraded: Log time: 2011-09-17 00:15:09.676235
DistroCodename: oneiric
DistroVariant: ubuntu
DkmsStatus:
 bcmwl, 5.100.82.38+bdcom, 2.6.38-11-generic, i686: installed
 bcmwl, 5.100.82.38+bdcom, 3.0.0-11-generic, i686: installed
 bcmwl, 5.100.82.38+bdcom, 3.0.0-12-generic, i686: installed
GraphicsCard:
 Intel Corporation Mobile 945GME Express Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:27ae] (rev 03) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
   Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:308f]
   Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:308f]
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Beta i386 (20100318)
MachineType: Hewlett-Packard HP Mini 110-1000
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.0.0-12-generic root=UUID=8d41dbfd-e56a-49c1-96ec-2f9f9db0b885 ro quiet crashkernel=384M-2G:64M,2G-:128M quiet splash vt.handoff=7
SourcePackage: unity
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-09-17 (20 days ago)
dmi.bios.date: 09/16/2009
dmi.bios.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
dmi.bios.version: 308F0 Ver. F.17
dmi.board.name: 308F
dmi.board.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
dmi.board.version: KBC Version 02.10
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: CNU9279FM5
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnHewlett-Packard:bvr308F0Ver.F.17:bd09/16/2009:svnHewlett-Packard:pnHPMini110-1000:pvr03A8100000000000100300000:rvnHewlett-Packard:rn308F:rvrKBCVersion02.10:cvnHewlett-Packard:ct10:cvr:
dmi.product.name: HP Mini 110-1000
dmi.product.version: 03A8100000000000100300000
dmi.sys.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
version.compiz: compiz 1:0.9.6+bzr20110929-0ubuntu3
version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.26-1ubuntu1
version.libgl1-mesa-dri: libgl1-mesa-dri 7.11-0ubuntu3
version.libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental: libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental N/A
version.libgl1-mesa-glx: libgl1-mesa-glx 7.11-0ubuntu3
version.xserver-xorg: xserver-xorg 1:7.6+7ubuntu7
version.xserver-xorg-input-evdev: xserver-xorg-input-evdev 1:2.6.0-1ubuntu13
version.xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:6.14.99~git20110811.g93fc084-0ubuntu1
version.xserver-xorg-video-intel: xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.15.901-1ubuntu2
version.xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:0.0.16+git20110411+8378443-1

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 859405, so is being marked as such. Any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to report any other bugs you may find

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.