compiz.real crashed with SIGSEGV/password not recognised(?)

[joseph O Neill]

Binary package hint: compiz

Not too sure if this is a replicated bug or not - anyway, on installing updates to Hardy (13.Feb.2008) and restarting, the machine's password was not recognised, (is this possble?!) not too sure what is going on. I tried changing it via the command line, but it didn't work.

If this is possible(!), i.e. inability to recognise a password (i assume the username is recognised since it appears in the command line), it may be a security vulnerability, so I'll notify it as such just to be safe.

In an attempt to access the system, I added a new user via the command line, and managed to log into my system that way, but on doing so, after displaying my original desktop wall paper, the Gnome display is totally white.

Anyway, I have some files i wish to recover - after doing that, I will attempt a fresh install and see what happens.

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Feb 13 18:08:45 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/compiz.real
NonfreeKernelModules: cdrom
Package: compiz-core 1:0.7.0-0ubuntu1
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/compiz.real --ignore-desktop-hints --replace --sm-client-id default0 ccp
ProcCwd: /home/dedavai
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: compiz
Stacktrace:
 #0 0x08055a60 in ?? ()
 #1 0x0807b548 in ?? ()
 #2 0x00000003 in ?? ()
 #3 0x000000fa in ?? ()
 #4 0x00000000 in ?? ()
StacktraceTop:
 ?? ()
 ?? ()
 ?? ()
 ?? ()
 ?? ()
Title: compiz.real crashed with SIGSEGV
Uname: Linux test-laptop 2.6.24-3-generic #1 SMP Thu Jan 3 23:30:29 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux
UserGroups:

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StacktraceTop:eventLoop () at ../../src/display.c:1879
main (argc=6, argv=0xbfa70924) at ../../src/main.c:442