compiz crashed with SIGSEGV in getCompPluginVTable20090315_imgsvg() when invoked from a command line from within GNome classic desktop

[Darin Miller]

GNome classic shell and Compiz fail to play well together when launching from the command line with:

compiz --replace &

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
Package: compiz-core 1:0.9.8+bzr3249-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-9.9-generic 3.5.0
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-9-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.4-0ubuntu6
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sat Aug 11 10:28:03 2012
Disassembly: => 0xa4d6: Cannot access memory at address 0xa4d6
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/compiz
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Alpha amd64 (20120724.2)
ProcCmdline: compiz --replace
SegvAnalysis:
 Segfault happened at: 0xa4d6: Cannot access memory at address 0xa4d6
 PC (0x0000a4d6) not located in a known VMA region (needed executable region)!
SegvReason: executing NULL VMA
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: compiz
StacktraceTop:
 ?? ()
 getCompPluginVTable20090315_imgsvg () from /usr/lib/compiz/libimgsvg.so
 ?? () from /usr/lib/libcompiz_core.so.ABI-20120526
 CompPlugin::load(char const*) () from /usr/lib/libcompiz_core.so.ABI-20120526
 compiz::private_screen::PluginManager::updatePlugins(CompScreen*, std::vector<CompOption::Value, std::allocator<CompOption::Value> > const&) () from /usr/lib/libcompiz_core.so.ABI-20120526
Title: compiz crashed with SIGSEGV in getCompPluginVTable20090315_imgsvg()
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups: adm cdrom dip lpadmin plugdev sambashare sudo

[Apport retracing service (apport)]

StacktraceTop:
 ?? ()
 getCompPluginVTable20090315_imgsvg () at /build/buildd/compiz-0.9.8+bzr3249/plugins/imgsvg/src/imgsvg.cpp:30
 dlloaderLoadPlugin (p=0x1ea0630, path=<optimized out>, name=0x1d973b8 "imgsvg") at /build/buildd/compiz-0.9.8+bzr3249/src/plugin.cpp:173
 CompPlugin::load (name=0x1d973b8 "imgsvg") at /build/buildd/compiz-0.9.8+bzr3249/src/plugin.cpp:421
 compiz::private_screen::PluginManager::updatePlugins (this=this@entry=0x1d17108, screen=0x1d128b0, extraPluginsRequested=...) at /build/buildd/compiz-0.9.8+bzr3249/src/screen.cpp:1111

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 971260, so it 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. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.