metacity crashes on opening Firefox or OpenOffice

[Martin Erik Werner]

Binary package hint: metacity

PROBLEM

Whenever OpenOffice or Firefox is launched, metacity crashes and leves desktop unusable (apart from panel, other apps not "focusable")

OBSERVATIONS

When metacity is invoked from VT with:
DISPLAY=:0.0 metacity --replace
and then firefox is started in X, this is printed to stderr from metacity:
###
Window manager warning: Log level 8: gdk_drawable_set_colormap: assertion `cmap == NULL || gdk_drawable_get_depth (drawable) == cmap->visual->depth' failed
Window manager warning: Log level 8: gdk_drawable_set_colormap: assertion `cmap == NULL || gdk_drawable_get_depth (drawable) == cmap->visual->depth' failed
Window manager warning: Log level 8: meta_frame_style_draw_with_style: assertion `style_gtk->colormap == gdk_drawable_get_colormap (drawable)' failed
Window manager warning: Log level 8: gdk_drawable_set_colormap: assertion `cmap == NULL || gdk_drawable_get_depth (drawable) == cmap->visual->depth' failed
Window manager warning: Log level 8: meta_frame_style_draw_with_style: assertion `style_gtk->colormap == gdk_drawable_get_colormap (drawable)' failed
Window manager warning: Log level 8: gdk_drawable_set_colormap: assertion `cmap == NULL || gdk_drawable_get_depth (drawable) == cmap->visual->depth' failed
Window manager warning: Log level 8: meta_frame_style_draw_with_style: assertion `style_gtk->colormap == gdk_drawable_get_colormap (drawable)' failed
Window manager warning: Log level 8: gdk_drawable_set_colormap: assertion `cmap == NULL || gdk_drawable_get_depth (drawable) == cmap->visual->depth' failed
Window manager warning: Log level 8: meta_frame_style_draw_with_style: assertion `style_gtk->colormap == gdk_drawable_get_colormap (drawable)' failed
Bug in window manager: Unexpected X error: BadDrawable (invalid Pixmap or Window parameter) serial 1406 error_code 9 request_code 53 minor_code 0)
###
(and metacity stops)

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: metacity 1:2.30.1-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.34-3.10-generic 2.6.34
Uname: Linux 2.6.34-3-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun May 23 22:34:25 2010
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100429)
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: metacity