Comment 8 for bug 245823

Here is the console output captured by starting compiz from a terminal (after doing the kill-compiz-and-start-metacity dance):

$ compiz --replace
Checking for Xgl: not present.
Detected PCI ID for VGA:
Checking for texture_from_pixmap: present.
Checking for non power of two support: present.
Checking for Composite extension: present.
Failed to initialize TTM buffer manager. Falling back to classic.
Comparing resolution (1280x800) to maximum 3D texture size (2048): Passed.
Checking for nVidia: not present.
Checking for FBConfig: Failed to initialize TTM buffer manager. Falling back to classic.
present.
Checking for Xgl: not present.
Failed to initialize TTM buffer manager. Falling back to classic.
failed to create drawable
failed to create drawable
failed to create drawable
failed to create drawable
failed to create drawable
failed to create drawable
failed to create drawable
failed to create drawable
failed to create drawable
/usr/bin/compiz.real (video) - Warn: No 8 bit GLX pixmap format,
disabling YV12 image format
failed to create drawable
failed to create drawable
failed to create drawable
failed to create drawable
failed to create drawable
failed to create drawable
failed to create drawable
failed to create drawable
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
^C
$

I'm unable to get a backtrace from compiz or gtk-window-decorator; attaching to either of these processes in the liveCD environment using gdb just gives me an indefinite hang until I kill gdb.