metacity crashed with SIGABRT in _XError()

[El Pensador]

Metacity crashes every time I launch VLC from a terminal. Note that VLC doesn't work but that is another problem...

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: metacity 1:2.34.1-1ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-10.16-generic 3.0.4
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-10-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 1.22.1-0ubuntu2
Architecture: i386
CrashCounter: 1
Date: Sat Sep 10 21:33:50 2011
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/metacity
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Alpha i386 (20110817)
ProcCmdline: metacity
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
Signal: 6
SourcePackage: metacity
StacktraceTop:
 ?? ()
 ?? ()
 _XError () from /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libX11.so.6
 ?? () from /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libX11.so.6
 ?? () from /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libX11.so.6
Title: metacity crashed with SIGABRT in _XError()
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-08-25 (16 days ago)
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare

[Gérard Duteil (gerardduteil)]

when i upgrade ubuntu

[Murat Uenalan (muenalan)]

since two weeks this crash haunts me, but everytime I login into my openbox session. But each second try it funnily does not occur, but I am not sure if metacity is replaced with some fallback.

to launchpad: although apport/launchpad brought me here because its duplicate bug headline, but shouldnt my tracefiles etc added to this bug too ?

[leonhardt (todd-leonhardt)]

Got this bug first thing after logging in.

[Dmitry Shachnev (mitya57)]

For VLC not starting, see bug 805303.

[dino99 (9d9)]

EOL have been reached, so no more maintenance. If that issue still exist, then report again using ubuntu-bug.