gnome-shell crashes with nVidia Quadro NVS 450

Bug #913480 reported by Harald Rudell
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Bug Description

On launch of lightdm using 'Gnome':
Gnome fails to display menu bar, action key does not work, window frames gone

configuration:
nVidia 2-gpu card and 3 hd displays.
nouveau driver does not work for this card.

with Xinerama this appears in syslog:
Jan 4 20:48:26 c505 kernel: [746806.658588] gnome-shell[20378]: segfault at 18
ip 00007fca7cd16307 sp 00007ffff270eed8 error 6 in
libcogl.so.5.0.0[7fca7ccc5000+71000]

Graphics card:
04:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: nVidia Corporation G98 [Quadro NVS
450] [10de:06fa] (rev a1)

Linux:
Linux c505 3.0.0-15-generic #24-Ubuntu SMP Mon Dec 12 15:23:55 UTC 2011 x86_64
x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
Kernel driver in use: nvidia 280.13
xserver-xorg 1:7.6+7ubuntu7

gnome-shell:
gnome-shell 3.2.1-0ubuntu1.1

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: gnome-shell 3.2.1-0ubuntu1.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-15.25-generic 3.0.13
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-15-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu4
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sat Jan 7 15:47:24 2012
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-shell
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/gnome-shell
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SegvAnalysis:
 Segfault happened at: 0x7fb2851f8307: movl $0x1,0x18(%rax)
 PC (0x7fb2851f8307) ok
 source "$0x1" ok
 destination "0x18(%rax)" (0x00000018) not located in a known VMA region (needed writable region)!
SegvReason: writing NULL VMA
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: gnome-shell
StacktraceTop:
 ?? () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcogl.so.5
 ?? () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcogl.so.5
 ?? () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcogl.so.5
 ?? () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libclutter-glx-1.0.so.0
 ?? () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libclutter-glx-1.0.so.0
Title: gnome-shell crashed with SIGSEGV
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-11-12 (56 days ago)
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom davfs2 dialout fuse kvm libvirtd lp lpadmin plugdev sambashare users

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Apport retracing service (apport) wrote : This bug is a duplicate

Thank you for taking the time to report this crash and helping to make this software better. This particular crash has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug #861406, so is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Please continue to report any other bugs you may find.

tags: removed: need-amd64-retrace
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