Compiz crashes when enabling workspacenames plugin

[Adam Coddington]

When enabling the "Workspace Names" plugin in the compiz settings manager, compiz will crash repeatedly with no obvious recovery options for the end user.

The answer, in case this comes up in somebody's google search, is to <ctrl>+<alt>+F2 into a new session, and edit the list of plugins with

    gconftool-2 --get /apps/compiz-1/general/screen0/options/active_plugins

finding the name of the offending plugin (in this case 'workspacenames'), and setting a new value for that configuration key like so:

    gconftool-2 --set --type=list --list-type=string /apps/compiz-1/general/screen0/options/active_plugins "[list,goes,in,here]"

See http://askubuntu.com/questions/74313/list-and-enable-disable-compiz-plugins-on-command-line for more helpful information regarding how to change enabled plugins from the commandline.

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: compiz-gnome 1:0.9.7.2-0ubuntu4
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-20.32-generic 3.2.12
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-20-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 1.95-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
CompizPlugins: [core,composite,opengl,decor,regex,resize,compiztoolbox,mousepoll,place,grid,animation,vpswitch,snap,move,session,wall,gnomecompat,imgpng,expo,ezoom,workarounds,fade,unitymtgrabhandles,scale,unityshell]
Date: Tue Mar 27 16:00:14 2012
ExecutablePath: /usr/lib/compiz/reset-compiz-gconf
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 (20100816.1)
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.7
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/lib/compiz/reset-compiz-gconf
PythonArgs: ['/usr/lib/compiz/reset-compiz-gconf']
SourcePackage: compiz
Title: reset-compiz-gconf crashed with GError in __main__: No D-BUS daemon running
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-03-09 (18 days ago)
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout fuse lpadmin plugdev sambashare vboxusers video

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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 #965998, 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.