compiz crashed with SIGSEGV in af_latin_hints_compute_segments()

[Alex Hatzopoulos]

Just opened Software Center while Compiz crashed unexpectetly and Software Center closed immediately. I'm using Precise alpha 2 with unity 5.2.0.

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: unity 5.2.0-0ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-14.23-generic 3.2.3
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-14-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
ApportVersion: 1.91-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon Feb 13 13:18:51 2012
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/compiz
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Alpha amd64 (20111129.1)
ProcCmdline: compiz
SegvAnalysis:
 Segfault happened at: 0x7f1ac798b9e1: mov %rax,(%rdx)
 PC (0x7f1ac798b9e1) ok
 source "%rax" ok
 destination "(%rdx)" (0x7f1a7ead6010) not located in a known VMA region (needed writable region)!
SegvReason: writing unknown VMA
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: unity
StacktraceTop:
 ?? () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libfreetype.so.6
 ?? () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libfreetype.so.6
 ?? () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libfreetype.so.6
 ?? () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libfreetype.so.6
 FT_Load_Glyph () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libfreetype.so.6
Title: compiz crashed with SIGSEGV in FT_Load_Glyph()
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-02-13 (0 days ago)
UserGroups: adm cdrom dip lpadmin plugdev sambashare sudo

[Apport retracing service (apport)]

StacktraceTop:
 af_latin_hints_compute_segments (hints=<optimized out>, dim=<optimized out>) at /build/buildd/freetype-2.4.8/freetype-2.4.8/src/autofit/aflatin.c:873
 af_latin_hints_detect_features (dim=AF_DIMENSION_VERT, hints=0x242a690) at /build/buildd/freetype-2.4.8/freetype-2.4.8/src/autofit/aflatin.c:1339
 af_latin_hints_apply (hints=0x242a690, outline=0x242a810, metrics=0x244b190) at /build/buildd/freetype-2.4.8/freetype-2.4.8/src/autofit/aflatin.c:2257
 af_loader_load_g (loader=0x242a678, scaler=0x7fff15d9b4c0, glyph_index=938, load_flags=68097, depth=0) at /build/buildd/freetype-2.4.8/freetype-2.4.8/src/autofit/afloader.c:178
 af_loader_load_glyph (load_flags=<optimized out>, gindex=<optimized out>, face=<optimized out>, loader=<optimized out>) at /build/buildd/freetype-2.4.8/freetype-2.4.8/src/autofit/afloader.c:539

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Wade Menard (wade-ezri)]

I think that this should be a duped or linked to bug 1199571 against cairo as I think thats where this needs to be fixed.