unity/compiz crashed with Alt+Tab switch (freshly booted system)

Bug #918579 reported by th3hamm0r
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This bug affects 2 people
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unity (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
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Bug Description

Right after restart, if I use the Alt+Tab combination, unity/compiz crashes and reloads.
Most of the time it crashes again, if I use the switch (after a previous crash), but sometimes it remains stable.

I have this bug since I did the last software update (unity package changes).

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: unity 4.28.0-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-15.25-generic 3.0.13
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-15-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu4
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Jan 19 09:13:05 2012
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/compiz
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release amd64 (20111012)
ProcCmdline: compiz
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=de_AT:de
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=de_AT.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SegvAnalysis:
 Segfault happened at: 0x7f8dc08172f5 <_ZN5unity8switcher18SwitcherController28CompareSwitcherItemsPriorityEP20AbstractLauncherIconS3_+37>: mov 0x0(%rbp),%rax
 PC (0x7f8dc08172f5) ok
 source "0x0(%rbp)" (0x00132461) not located in a known VMA region (needed readable region)!
 destination "%rax" ok
SegvReason: reading unknown VMA
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: unity
StacktraceTop:
 unity::switcher::SwitcherController::CompareSwitcherItemsPriority(AbstractLauncherIcon*, AbstractLauncherIcon*) () from /usr/lib/compiz/libunityshell.so
 void std::__insertion_sort<__gnu_cxx::__normal_iterator<AbstractLauncherIcon**, std::vector<AbstractLauncherIcon*, std::allocator<AbstractLauncherIcon*> > >, bool (*)(AbstractLauncherIcon*, AbstractLauncherIcon*)>(__gnu_cxx::__normal_iterator<AbstractLauncherIcon**, std::vector<AbstractLauncherIcon*, std::allocator<AbstractLauncherIcon*> > >, __gnu_cxx::__normal_iterator<AbstractLauncherIcon**, std::vector<AbstractLauncherIcon*, std::allocator<AbstractLauncherIcon*> > >, bool (*)(AbstractLauncherIcon*, AbstractLauncherIcon*)) () from /usr/lib/compiz/libunityshell.so
 unity::switcher::SwitcherController::Show(unity::switcher::SwitcherController::ShowMode, unity::switcher::SwitcherController::SortMode, bool, std::vector<AbstractLauncherIcon*, std::allocator<AbstractLauncherIcon*> >) () from /usr/lib/compiz/libunityshell.so
 UnityScreen::altTabInitiateCommon(CompAction*, unsigned int, std::vector<CompOption, std::allocator<CompOption> >&) () from /usr/lib/compiz/libunityshell.so
 UnityScreen::altTabForwardInitiate(CompAction*, unsigned int, std::vector<CompOption, std::allocator<CompOption> >&) () from /usr/lib/compiz/libunityshell.so
Title: compiz crashed with SIGSEGV in unity::switcher::SwitcherController::CompareSwitcherItemsPriority()
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare

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th3hamm0r (th3hamm0r) wrote :
description: updated
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Apport retracing service (apport) wrote : This bug is a duplicate

Thank you for taking the time to report this crash and helping to make this software better. This particular crash has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug #918121, so is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Please continue to report any other bugs you may find.

visibility: private → public
visibility: private → public
tags: removed: need-amd64-retrace
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th3hamm0r (th3hamm0r) wrote :

I have found this bug https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity/+bug/917560. I have a Lenovo T420.

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

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

Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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