[Hardy] Compiz crashing system

[Brian Pontarelli]

Binary package hint: compiz

After updating to the latest compiz, I figured this bug would be fixed, but it is not. Here's the issue:

When Thunderbird or some other application pops up a dialog, usually from another virtual desktop onto the current virtual desktop, Compiz spikes to 100% CPU usage and the system is hung. I can however change to another TTY (I think that is what they are called) using CTRL-ALT-F1. This is how I can see that compiz is using 100% CPU. The process is named compiz.real. In order to fix this I have to restart X using CTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE or kill the compiz.real process (effective restarting X).

This is pretty frequent. One to two times per day or more. It is pretty simple for me to reproduce and at this point is a complete show stopper for Hardy on my setup.

Here are my systems specs:

Dell Dimension 9150
nVidia (not sure exact specs, can get them if necessary)
Hardy latest updates (4/17/2008) upgraded from Gusty
Nothing custom at all except some Compiz key-bindings and a few other desktop tweaks like background, panels, etc.

[Brian Pontarelli (brian-pontarelli)]

Oops. Can someone please fix my typo on the title. This should be compiz not copmiz. It will make this bug impossible to search. I'll wait for a few minutes to see if someone fixes it, otherwise I will open another bug with the correct title.

[Brian Pontarelli (brian-pontarelli)]

Nevermind, realized that this version of launchpad allows me to edit the title and description.

[Brian Pontarelli (brian-pontarelli)]

This is getting worse. Compiz is now consuming 100% CPU all of the time and my system is getting hammered. Can someone please review this bug and advise.

[Brian Pontarelli (brian-pontarelli)]

Some more investigation... If I turn off visual effects and log out and back in, compiz.real is still eating up 100% CPU. I'm going to try rebooting, but this is pretty bad. Luckily I have 2 CPUs so I'm not totally out of commission.

[Brian Pontarelli (brian-pontarelli)]

Rebooted, nothing. Removed all compiz packages and reboot and now everything is back to normal. Compiz is definitely not ready for this release quite yet.

[Babstar (debian-lists)]

I can confirm this bug with Kubuntu 8.04

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thanks for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Could you please add your ~/.xsession-errors, /var/log/Xorg.0.log and the output of lspci -vvnn to your bug report as separate attachments? Thanks in advance.

[Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman)]

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need
to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments.
Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't
hesitate to submit bug reports in the future.