Can't enable visual effects, compiz crashes

[Roman Masek]

Visual effects don't work (although the process compiz.real is running).

I'm running the latest Hardy (AMD64).

Here's the output of /usr/bin/compiz.real --ignore-desktop-hints --replace --loose-binding --sm-client-id default0 core ccp (which i tried to run manually):

Couldn't find a perfect decorator match; trying all decorators
Found no decorator to start
/usr/bin/compiz.real (video) - Warn: No 8 bit GLX pixmap format, disabling YV12 image format
I/O warning : failed to load external entity "/home/romario/.compiz/session/default0"
Attempted to unregister path (path[0] = org path[1] = freedesktop) which isn't registered
Attempted to unregister path (path[0] = org path[1] = freedesktop) which isn't registered
Attempted to unregister path (path[0] = org path[1] = freedesktop) which isn't registered
*** glibc detected *** /usr/bin/compiz.real: double free or corruption (!prev): 0x000000000080fe30 ***

[henrik (henrik-sofort-surf)]

worked perfectly yesterday. after I have updated:

Checking for Xgl: not present.
Detected PCI ID for VGA: 00:02.0 0300: 8086:27a2 (rev 03) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
Checking for texture_from_pixmap: not present.
Trying again with indirect rendering:
Checking for texture_from_pixmap: present.
Checking for non power of two support: present.
Checking for Composite extension: present.
Comparing resolution (1280x800) to maximum 3D texture size (2048): Passed.
Checking for nVidia: not present.
Checking for FBConfig: present.
Checking for Xgl: not present.
Couldn't find a perfect decorator match; trying all decorators
Found no decorator to start
/usr/bin/compiz.real (video) - Warn: No 8 bit GLX pixmap format, disabling YV12 image format
Attempted to unregister path (path[0] = org path[1] = freedesktop) which isn't registered
Attempted to unregister path (path[0] = org path[1] = freedesktop) which isn't registered
Attempted to unregister path (path[0] = org path[1] = freedesktop) which isn't registered

[tonyDamage (tonydamage)]

My system is Ubuntu Hardy (AMD64) with ATI Radeon XPress 1250.

After update I run into same problem, but few minutes ago I fixed it.

During the package actualization two packages were uninstalled: "compiz" and "compiz-gnome". I installed them manually and compiz started working OK.

[Roman Masek (romario333)]

Installation of "compiz" and "compiz-gnome" packages solved this for me too.

[Chafnan (chafnan)]

I had the same problem.

The above worked me also to run the installation of compiz and compiz-gnome again.

Thanks Roman