Compiz not working properly

[William Ranvaud]

Compiz has strange behaviours:
-When triggering the initiate window picker, all windows show up including the ones minimized (they should only appear when we ask to initiate window picker for all windows)
-After waking from suspend, when you move a window with the mouse, the window has a delay compared to the mouse. This disappears when you check or uncheck any option in compiz (compiz seems to restart and solve the problem)
-When trying to change some settings in compiz (adding or removing one option), the top bar of windows (window decoration), the unity launcher and the main bar disappears (ubuntu unity plugin). Sometimes the keyboard also becomes unresponsive.
I'm able to reproduce the problem.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: compiz 1:0.9.6+bzr20110929-0ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.20-generic 3.0.4
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic i686
.tmp.unity.support.test.0:

ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu3
Architecture: i386
CheckboxSubmission: cd761bf080a628a9712bc91d1e0b27aa
CheckboxSystem: b633b4f40868d491c2ae5b50030ce6f3
CompizPlugins: [core,bailer,detection,composite,opengl,decor,move,ring,gnomecompat,imgpng,compiztoolbox,vpswitch,place,regex,animation,grid,mousepoll,resize,unitymtgrabhandles,wall,scale,session,workarounds,expo,scaleaddon,ezoom,unityshell]
CompositorRunning: compiz
Date: Sat Oct 15 18:13:09 2011
DistUpgraded: Log time: 2011-10-13 17:49:11.244146
DistroCodename: oneiric
DistroVariant: ubuntu
DkmsStatus:
 virtualbox, 4.1.2, 2.6.38-11-generic, i686: installed
 virtualbox, 4.1.2, 3.0.0-12-generic, i686: installed
GraphicsCard:
 ATI Technologies Inc Mobility Radeon HD 3400 Series [1002:95c4] (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
   Subsystem: Sony Corporation Device [104d:9035]
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100816.1)
MachineType: Sony Corporation VGN-FW270AE
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.0.0-12-generic root=UUID=872a2596-d9f6-4fcb-a103-af9993d3220b ro acpi_sleep=nonvs quiet splash vt.handoff=7
SourcePackage: compiz
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-10-13 (2 days ago)
dmi.bios.date: 07/25/2008
dmi.bios.vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
dmi.bios.version: R1090Y0
dmi.board.asset.tag: N/A
dmi.board.name: VAIO
dmi.board.vendor: Sony Corporation
dmi.board.version: N/A
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: N/A
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: Sony Corporation
dmi.chassis.version: N/A
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAmericanMegatrendsInc.:bvrR1090Y0:bd07/25/2008:svnSonyCorporation:pnVGN-FW270AE:pvrC7001EFC:rvnSonyCorporation:rnVAIO:rvrN/A:cvnSonyCorporation:ct10:cvrN/A:
dmi.product.name: VGN-FW270AE
dmi.product.version: C7001EFC
dmi.sys.vendor: Sony Corporation
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

[Alex Launi (alexlauni)]

Could you please follow the instructions on https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Unity/FilingBugs#Getting_a_stack_trace and attach unity.log to this bug report?

[William Ranvaud (wiranvaud)]

Yes sir I've attached the unity.log file.

But I had some trouble following the steps. I've done what I could because this problem happens all the time and is annoying. Here's what happened:

I've installed the debugging symbols for compiz and unity but there was no debugging symbols for nux.(apt-cache policy nux - N:unable to locate package nux)

Then I did the advanced debug until the "[ and when compiz/unity crash do...]"
At this point nothing happened for a while then the computer was unusable and I had to restart.

So I ran valgrind and will attach the result.

Hope there's something that can be done out of this info.

[William Ranvaud (wiranvaud)]

The valgrind output from terminal after: valgrind compiz --replace &

[jhfhlkjlj (fdsuufijjejejejej-deactivatedaccount)]

Hi, William. Unfortunately, this bug report is three separate issues. Please level this down to one issue per report.

The first report you describe is intentional behavior and is a wishlist item. If you wish to speak about this behavior, please contact the Ayatana mailing list.

The second and third reports are legitimate, but, again, need to be separate reports.

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 the current 11.10 release. If you are able, it would be of great help if you could confirm if the bugs still exist by testing a livecd (available at http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-live/current/). If you test it and the issues still persist, please report new, separate bugs on the issue. Please keep in mind that the development version (12.04) is not suitable for daily use - please only use it for testing purposes.

Thank you for your help and patience.