Composition manager can't start

[QkiZ]

After last update (28 February 2013) Kwin and Compiz can't start. On Unity I dont have sidebar and upper panel. On KDE panels are black (no transparency). Glxgears exit with following error:

Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0".
Error: couldn't get an RGB, Double-buffered visual

I don't have nVidia graphics card. My gfx hardware is "Intel 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller":
hwinfo --gfxcard output:

09: PCI 02.0: 0300 VGA compatible controller (VGA)
  [Created at pci.318]
  UDI: /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_8086_2e12
  Unique ID: _Znp.Ww7NBjOxF+B
  SysFS ID: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.0
  SysFS BusID: 0000:00:02.0
  Hardware Class: graphics card
  Model: "Intel 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller"
  Vendor: pci 0x8086 "Intel Corporation"
  Device: pci 0x2e12 "4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller"
  SubVendor: pci 0x1028 "Dell"
  SubDevice: pci 0x0276
  Revision: 0x03
  Driver: "i915"
  Driver Modules: "drm"
  Memory Range: 0xfe800000-0xfebfffff (rw,non-prefetchable)
  Memory Range: 0xd0000000-0xdfffffff (ro,non-prefetchable)
  I/O Ports: 0xec90-0xec97 (rw)
  IRQ: 49 (110569 events)
  Module Alias: "pci:v00008086d00002E12sv00001028sd00000276bc03sc00i00"
  Driver Info #0:
    Driver Status: i915 is active
    Driver Activation Cmd: "modprobe i915"
  Config Status: cfg=new, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown

10: PCI 02.1: 0380 Display controller
  [Created at pci.318]
  UDI: /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_8086_2e13
  Unique ID: ruGf.1NV+4ZhbXc1
  SysFS ID: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.1
  SysFS BusID: 0000:00:02.1
  Hardware Class: graphics card
  Model: "Intel 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller"
  Vendor: pci 0x8086 "Intel Corporation"
  Device: pci 0x2e13 "4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller"
  SubVendor: pci 0x1028 "Dell"
  SubDevice: pci 0x0276
  Revision: 0x03
  Memory Range: 0xfe700000-0xfe7fffff (rw,non-prefetchable)
  Module Alias: "pci:v00008086d00002E13sv00001028sd00000276bc03sc80i00"
  Config Status: cfg=new, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown

Primary display adapter: #9

After uninstall screen-resolution-extra, nvidia-common, nvidia-current, xserver-xorg-video-nouveau everything back to normal. Kwin and compiz now runs properly. But uninstalling this packages breaks dependence of VirtualBox 4.2 that needs to be uninstalled.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
Package: nvidia-current (not installed)
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-25.25-lowlatency 3.5.7.4
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-25-lowlatency i686
.tmp.unity.support.test.0:

ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu10
Architecture: i386
CompizPlugins: [core,composite,opengl,decor,regex,vpswitch,grid,imgpng,place,move,compiztoolbox,gnomecompat,resize,mousepoll,wall,unitymtgrabhandles,session,animation,workarounds,thumbnail,wobbly,fade,expo,scale,ezoom,unityshell]
CompositorRunning: kwin
Date: Fri Mar 1 09:30:22 2013
DistUpgraded: Fresh install
DistroCodename: quantal
DistroVariant: kubuntu
DkmsStatus: vboxhost, 4.1.24, 3.5.0-25-lowlatency, i686: installed
GraphicsCard:
 Intel Corporation 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:2e12] (rev 03) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
   Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:0276]
   Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:0276]
InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-10-25 (126 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Release i386 (20121017.1)
MachineType: Dell Inc. OptiPlex 960
MarkForUpload: True
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.5.0-25-lowlatency root=UUID=6e660690-2407-4458-8bb4-0ac8bc1bbc31 ro crashkernel=384M-2G:64M,2G-:128M splash vt.handoff=7
SourcePackage: nvidia-graphics-drivers
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
dmi.bios.date: 09/23/2008
dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.bios.version: A01
dmi.board.name: 0Y958C
dmi.board.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.board.version: A00
dmi.chassis.type: 6
dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnDellInc.:bvrA01:bd09/23/2008:svnDellInc.:pnOptiPlex960:pvr:rvnDellInc.:rn0Y958C:rvrA00:cvnDellInc.:ct6:cvr:
dmi.product.name: OptiPlex 960
dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Inc.
version.compiz: compiz 1:0.9.8.6-0ubuntu1
version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.39-0ubuntu1
version.libgl1-mesa-dri: libgl1-mesa-dri 9.0.2-0ubuntu0.1
version.libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental: libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental N/A
version.libgl1-mesa-glx: libgl1-mesa-glx 9.0.2-0ubuntu0.1
version.xserver-xorg-core: xserver-xorg-core 2:1.13.0-0ubuntu6.1
version.xserver-xorg-input-evdev: xserver-xorg-input-evdev 1:2.7.3-0ubuntu2
version.xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:6.99.99~git20120913.8637f772-0ubuntu1
version.xserver-xorg-video-intel: xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.20.9-0ubuntu2
version.xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau N/A

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Dragan Tomas (croatian-earthlink)]

The same exact thing happened to me with that update. My 12.10 installation is on an old laptop, HP Pavilion DV4000, that has an older Intel graphics chipset. The exact output of the "lspci | grep VGA" is as follows:

00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/GMS/910GML Express Graphics Controller (rev 04)

After removing the same packages that QkiZ reported I too had success with finally getting all the compoziting functionality back. The latest version of VirtualBox is also installed on this laptop, but I see no ill effects so far. The system or the VirtualBox did not complain of any dependancies and the VirtualBox seems to be running just fine.

[QkiZ (qkiz)]

On one of my computers i had uninstall nvidia packages and Synaptic automatically uninstall Virtual Box 4.2. But on another computer nothing like that happened. I don't know how it happened.

[dino99 (9d9)]

That version is no more supported; please open a new bug report if the actual archive found version also has the same issue.