google earth locked up on minimise window

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Minimising GE window caused it to lock up restricting access to Unity sidebar etc

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: unity 5.10.0-0ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-23.36-generic 3.2.14
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-23-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu3
Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon Apr 16 17:50:46 2012
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/compiz
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Beta amd64 (20120327.1)
ProcCmdline: compiz
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SegvAnalysis:
 Segfault happened at: 0x7f274c4ae047 <_ZN10CompWindow2idEv+7>: mov 0x20(%rax),%rax
 PC (0x7f274c4ae047) ok
 source "0x20(%rax)" (0x00000020) not located in a known VMA region (needed readable region)!
 destination "%rax" ok
SegvReason: reading NULL VMA
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: unity
StacktraceTop:
 CompWindow::id() () from /usr/lib/libcompiz_core.so.ABI-20120305
 unity::UnityWindow::glPaint(GLWindowPaintAttrib const&, GLMatrix const&, CompRegion const&, unsigned int) () from /usr/lib/compiz/libunityshell.so
 GLWindow::glPaint(GLWindowPaintAttrib const&, GLMatrix const&, CompRegion const&, unsigned int) () from /usr/lib/compiz/libopengl.so
 PrivateGLScreen::paintOutputRegion(GLMatrix const&, CompRegion const&, CompOutput*, unsigned int) () from /usr/lib/compiz/libopengl.so
 GLScreen::glPaintOutput(GLScreenPaintAttrib const&, GLMatrix const&, CompRegion const&, CompOutput*, unsigned int) () from /usr/lib/compiz/libopengl.so
Title: compiz crashed with SIGSEGV in CompWindow::id()
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups: adm cdrom dip lpadmin plugdev sambashare sudo

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StacktraceTop:
 CompWindow::id (this=0x6532c30) at /build/buildd/compiz-0.9.7.6/src/window.cpp:5597
 _Sp_counted_base (this=0x0) at /usr/include/c++/4.6/bits/shared_ptr_base.h:112
 _Sp_counted_ptr (this=0x0, __p=0x2) at /usr/include/c++/4.6/bits/shared_ptr_base.h:289
 __shared_count<CompAction*> (this=0x7fff4770ca38, __p=0x2) at /usr/include/c++/4.6/bits/shared_ptr_base.h:456
 __shared_ptr<CompAction> (this=0x7fff4770ca30, __p=0x2) at /usr/include/c++/4.6/bits/shared_ptr_base.h:762