compiz crashed with SIGSEGV in __libc_fork()

[john johnson]

Compiz crashed unexpectedly after startup...

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: libnux-2.0-0 2.0.0-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-10.18-generic 3.2.1
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-10-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 1.91-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
CrashCounter: 1
Date: Wed Jan 25 13:33:27 2012
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/compiz
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Alpha amd64 (20120118)
ProcCmdline: compiz
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SegvAnalysis:
 Segfault happened at: 0x7f7e98a56c50 <_nv019tls+16>: movl $0x0,0x8(%rax)
 PC (0x7f7e98a56c50) ok
 source "$0x0" ok
 destination "0x8(%rax)" (0x38352e3142) not located in a known VMA region (needed writable region)!
SegvReason: writing unknown VMA
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: nux
StacktraceTop:
 _nv019tls () from /usr/lib/nvidia-current-updates/tls/libnvidia-tls.so.290.10
 fork () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6
 ?? () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
 g_spawn_async_with_pipes () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
 g_spawn_async () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
Title: compiz crashed with SIGSEGV in _nv019tls()
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-01-21 (4 days ago)
UserGroups: adm cdrom dip lpadmin plugdev sambashare sudo

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StacktraceTop:
 ?? ()
 ?? ()
 __libc_fork () at ../nptl/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/x86_64/../fork.c:170
 fork_exec_with_pipes (intermediate_child=1, working_directory=0x0, argv=0x488e4a0, envp=0x3665ef0, close_descriptors=1, search_path=1, stdout_to_null=0, stderr_to_null=0, child_inherits_stdin=0, file_and_argv_zero=0, child_setup=0x7f7ea0af3b40 <child_setup>, user_data=0x7fff24fd62f0, child_pid=0x7fff24fd631c, standard_input=0x0, standard_output=0x0, standard_error=0x0, error=0x7fff24fd63b0) at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.31.12/./glib/gspawn.c:1232
 g_spawn_async_with_pipes (working_directory=<optimized out>, argv=<optimized out>, envp=<optimized out>, flags=<optimized out>, child_setup=<optimized out>, user_data=<optimized out>, child_pid=0x7fff24fd631c, standard_input=0x0, standard_output=0x0, standard_error=0x0, error=0x7fff24fd63b0) at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.31.12/./glib/gspawn.c:653

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

Thanks for the bug report. Is that still an issue for you Ubuntu 12.04 with all updates applied? Can you please test that and let us know?

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