compiz crashed with signal 5 in Glib::exception_handlers_invoke()

[PeteGordon]

This happened when starting Unity 5.10 for the first time after receiving an update to kernel linux-image-3.2.0-23-generic-pae.

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: compiz-core 1:0.9.7.6-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-23.36-generic-pae 3.2.14
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-23-generic-pae i686
.tmp.unity.support.test.0:

ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu2
Architecture: i386
CompizPlugins: [core,composite,opengl,compiztoolbox,decor,vpswitch,snap,mousepoll,resize,place,move,wall,grid,regex,imgpng,session,gnomecompat,animation,fade,unitymtgrabhandles,workarounds,scale,expo,ezoom,unityshell]
CompositorRunning: compiz
Date: Fri Apr 13 23:40:08 2012
DistUpgraded: Fresh install
DistroCodename: precise
DistroVariant: ubuntu
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/compiz
GraphicsCard:
 Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI RS482 [Radeon Xpress 200M] [1002:5975] (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
   Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device [1025:009f]
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Beta i386 (20120301)
Lsusb:
 Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
 Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
 Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
 Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0402:5602 ALi Corp. M5602 Video Camera Controller
MachineType: Acer Aspire 5100
PccardctlIdent:
 Socket 0:
   no product info available
PccardctlStatus:
 Socket 0:
   no card
ProcCmdline: compiz
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.2.0-23-generic-pae root=UUID=4e231212-c802-41dc-80f8-5c26361cbf64 ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
Signal: 5
SourcePackage: compiz
StacktraceTop:
 Glib::exception_handlers_invoke() () from /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libglibmm-2.4.so.1
 Glib::Source::dispatch_vfunc(_GSource*, int (*)(void*), void*) () from /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libglibmm-2.4.so.1
 g_main_context_dispatch () from /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
 ?? () from /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
 g_main_loop_run () from /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
Title: compiz crashed with signal 5 in Glib::exception_handlers_invoke()
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups: adm cdrom dip lpadmin plugdev sambashare sudo
dmi.bios.date: 08/22/2008
dmi.bios.vendor: Acer
dmi.bios.version: V3.13
dmi.board.name: Navarro
dmi.board.vendor: Acer
dmi.board.version: N/A
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: Acer
dmi.chassis.version: N/A
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAcer:bvrV3.13:bd08/22/2008:svnAcer:pnAspire5100:pvrV3.13:rvnAcer:rnNavarro:rvrN/A:cvnAcer:ct10:cvrN/A:
dmi.product.name: Aspire 5100
dmi.product.version: V3.13
dmi.sys.vendor: Acer
version.compiz: compiz 1:0.9.7.6-0ubuntu1
version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.32-1ubuntu1
version.libgl1-mesa-dri: libgl1-mesa-dri 8.0.2-0ubuntu3
version.libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental: libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental N/A
version.libgl1-mesa-glx: libgl1-mesa-glx 8.0.2-0ubuntu3
version.xserver-xorg-core: xserver-xorg-core 2:1.11.4-0ubuntu10
version.xserver-xorg-input-evdev: xserver-xorg-input-evdev 1:2.7.0-0ubuntu1
version.xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:6.14.99~git20111219.aacbd629-0ubuntu2
version.xserver-xorg-video-intel: xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.17.0-1ubuntu4
version.xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:0.0.16+git20111201+b5534a1-1build2

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developers failed, since the report is ill-formed. Perhaps the report data got
modified?

  ../Objects/stringobject.c:3886: bad argument to internal function

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