search app displays odd video patterns or crashes desktop on launch

[Jason]

"ubuntu-bug -w" identified compiz as the related package, but the problem only exists when clicking the search app icon in the launcher.

When I attempt to use the search app in the launcher, I expect a window to open with a search box. Instead, the desktop freezes and crashes oftentimes when I click the icon. Sometimes it instead doesn't display a window but there will instead be some graphical glitch, such as a red, green, and blue pattern at the top edge of the screen.

I am using a Lenovo Thinkpad T61. The same bug occurred on this hardware using 13.04 and continued since upgrading to 13.10.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10
Package: compiz-core 1:0.9.10+13.10.20131011-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.11.0-13.20-generic 3.11.6
Uname: Linux 3.11.0-13-generic x86_64
.tmp.unity.support.test.0:

ApportVersion: 2.12.5-0ubuntu2.1
Architecture: amd64
CompizPlugins: No value set for `/apps/compiz-1/general/screen0/options/active_plugins'
CompositorRunning: compiz
CompositorUnredirectDriverBlacklist: '(nouveau|Intel).*Mesa 8.0'
CompositorUnredirectFSW: true
Date: Fri Nov 15 21:44:55 2013
DistUpgraded: 2013-11-14 14:52:32,028 DEBUG enabling apt cron job
DistroCodename: saucy
DistroVariant: ubuntu
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/compiz
GraphicsCard:
 NVIDIA Corporation G86M [Quadro NVS 140M] [10de:0429] (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
   Subsystem: Lenovo ThinkPad T61 [17aa:20d8]
InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-10-25 (21 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 13.04 "Raring Ringtail" - Release amd64 (20130424)
MachineType: LENOVO 6459CTO
MarkForUpload: True
PccardctlIdent:
 Socket 0:
   no product info available
PccardctlStatus:
 Socket 0:
   no card
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.11.0-13-generic root=UUID=4ab3409d-bd82-4450-a079-5a7cd79f909f ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
SourcePackage: compiz
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to saucy on 2013-11-14 (1 days ago)
dmi.bios.date: 04/25/2008
dmi.bios.vendor: LENOVO
dmi.bios.version: 7LETB7WW (2.17 )
dmi.board.name: 6459CTO
dmi.board.vendor: LENOVO
dmi.board.version: Not Available
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: No Asset Information
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: LENOVO
dmi.chassis.version: Not Available
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnLENOVO:bvr7LETB7WW(2.17):bd04/25/2008:svnLENOVO:pn6459CTO:pvrThinkPadT61:rvnLENOVO:rn6459CTO:rvrNotAvailable:cvnLENOVO:ct10:cvrNotAvailable:
dmi.product.name: 6459CTO
dmi.product.version: ThinkPad T61
dmi.sys.vendor: LENOVO
version.compiz: compiz 1:0.9.10+13.10.20131011-0ubuntu1
version.ia32-libs: ia32-libs N/A
version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.46-1
version.libgl1-mesa-dri: libgl1-mesa-dri 9.2.1-1ubuntu3
version.libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental: libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental N/A
version.libgl1-mesa-glx: libgl1-mesa-glx 9.2.1-1ubuntu3
version.xserver-xorg-core: xserver-xorg-core 2:1.14.3-3ubuntu2
version.xserver-xorg-input-evdev: xserver-xorg-input-evdev 1:2.7.3-0ubuntu3.1
version.xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:7.2.0-0ubuntu10
version.xserver-xorg-video-intel: xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.99.904-0ubuntu2
version.xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:1.0.9-2ubuntu1
xserver.bootTime: Fri Nov 15 21:41:21 2013
xserver.configfile: default
xserver.errors:
 Failed to load module "nvidia" (module does not exist, 0)
 Failed to load module "nvidia" (module does not exist, 0)
xserver.logfile: /var/log/Xorg.0.log
xserver.version: 2:1.14.3-3ubuntu2
xserver.video_driver: nouveau