compiz crashed with SIGSEGV in ccsStringToModifiers()

[Giovanni Mellini]

This appened to me after upgrading to 12.10 from 12.04

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
Package: compiz-core 1:0.9.8+bzr3319-0ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-13.14-generic 3.5.3
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-13-generic i686
ApportVersion: 2.5.1-0ubuntu4
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri Aug 31 07:47:40 2012
DistUpgraded: 2012-08-31 08:28:26,167 DEBUG enabling apt cron job
DistroCodename: quantal
DistroVariant: ubuntu
DkmsStatus:
 virtualbox, 4.1.18, 3.2.0-29-generic-pae, i686: installed
 virtualbox, 4.1.18, 3.5.0-13-generic, i686: installed
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/compiz
GraphicsCard:
 Intel Corporation 2nd Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:0116] (rev 09) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
   Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:167c]
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Beta i386 (20120301)
MachineType: Hewlett-Packard HP ProBook 4530s
ProcCmdline: compiz
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=it_IT.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.5.0-13-generic root=UUID=ecd9ec59-17a9-49d4-814b-ceee87e09ec9 ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
SegvAnalysis:
 Segfault happened at: 0xb74ca77b: movzbl (%eax),%ecx
 PC (0xb74ca77b) ok
 source "(%eax)" (0x00000000) not located in a known VMA region (needed readable region)!
 destination "%ecx" ok
SegvReason: reading NULL VMA
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: compiz
StacktraceTop:
 ?? () from /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libc.so.6
 ccsStringToModifiers () from /usr/lib/libcompizconfig.so.0
 ?? () from /usr/lib/compizconfig/backends/libgconf.so
 ccsIntegrationReadOptionIntoSetting () from /usr/lib/libcompizconfig.so.0
 ?? () from /usr/lib/compizconfig/backends/libgconf.so
Title: compiz crashed with SIGSEGV in ccsStringToModifiers()
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to quantal on 2012-08-31 (0 days ago)
UserGroups: adm cdrom dip lpadmin plugdev sambashare sudo
dmi.bios.date: 04/08/2011
dmi.bios.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
dmi.bios.version: 68SRR Ver. F.05
dmi.board.name: 167C
dmi.board.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
dmi.board.version: KBC Version 22.1A
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: CNU1190JTL
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnHewlett-Packard:bvr68SRRVer.F.05:bd04/08/2011:svnHewlett-Packard:pnHPProBook4530s:pvrA0001D02:rvnHewlett-Packard:rn167C:rvrKBCVersion22.1A:cvnHewlett-Packard:ct10:cvr:
dmi.product.name: HP ProBook 4530s
dmi.product.version: A0001D02
dmi.sys.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
version.compiz: compiz 1:0.9.8+bzr3319-0ubuntu3
version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.38-0ubuntu2
version.libgl1-mesa-dri: libgl1-mesa-dri 9.0~git20120821.c1114c61-0ubuntu2
version.libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental: libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental N/A
version.libgl1-mesa-glx: libgl1-mesa-glx 9.0~git20120821.c1114c61-0ubuntu2
version.xserver-xorg-core: xserver-xorg-core 2:1.12.99.905-0ubuntu3
version.xserver-xorg-input-evdev: xserver-xorg-input-evdev 1:2.7.3-0ubuntu1
version.xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:6.99.99~git20120713.6ef1ad6a-0ubuntu1
version.xserver-xorg-video-intel: xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.20.3-0ubuntu1
version.xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:1.0.1-4~ubuntu1

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StacktraceTop:
 ccsStringToModifiers (binding=0x0) at /build/buildd/compiz-0.9.8+bzr3319/compizconfig/libcompizconfig/src/bindings.c:241
 ?? ()
 ?? ()

[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 1041535, 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.