compiz crashed with SIGSEGV in g_type_check_instance_is_a()

[Charlie_Smotherman]

crashe on reboot after apt-get dist-upgrade

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10
Package: unity 7.1.0+13.10.20130829.1-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.11.0-4.9-generic 3.11.0-rc7
Uname: Linux 3.11.0-4-generic i686
ApportVersion: 2.12.1-0ubuntu3
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Aug 31 07:31:53 2013
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/compiz
MarkForUpload: True
ProcCmdline: compiz
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SegvAnalysis:
 Segfault happened at: 0xb705fe2e <g_type_check_instance_is_a+78>: testb $0x4,0xe(%edi)
 PC (0xb705fe2e) ok
 source "$0x4" ok
 destination "0xe(%edi)" (0xffff010a) not located in a known VMA region (needed writable region)!
SegvReason: writing unknown VMA
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: unity
StacktraceTop:
 g_type_check_instance_is_a () from /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libgobject-2.0.so.0
 g_object_unref () from /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libgobject-2.0.so.0
 std::_Function_base::_Base_manager<sigc::bind_functor<-1, sigc::bound_mem_functor5<void, unity::IconLoader::Impl::IconLoaderTask, std::string const&, int, int, unity::glib::Object<_GdkPixbuf> const&, unity::glib::Object<_UnityProtocolAnnotatedIcon> const&>, unity::glib::Object<_UnityProtocolAnnotatedIcon>, sigc::nil, sigc::nil, sigc::nil, sigc::nil, sigc::nil, sigc::nil> >::_M_manager(std::_Any_data&, std::_Any_data const&, std::_Manager_operation) () from /usr/lib/compiz/libunityshell.so
 unity::IconLoader::Impl::DisconnectHandle(int) () from /usr/lib/compiz/libunityshell.so
 std::_Sp_counted_ptr_inplace<unity::IconLoader::Impl::IconLoaderTask, std::allocator<unity::IconLoader::Impl::IconLoaderTask>, (__gnu_cxx::_Lock_policy)2>::_M_dispose() () from /usr/lib/compiz/libunityshell.so
Title: compiz crashed with SIGSEGV in g_type_check_instance_is_a()
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups: adm cdrom dip lpadmin plugdev sambashare sudo

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StacktraceTop:
 g_type_check_instance_is_a (type_instance=type_instance@entry=0xa569268, iface_type=iface_type@entry=80) at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.37.6/./gobject/gtype.c:3975
 g_object_unref (_object=0xa569268) at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.37.6/./gobject/gobject.c:3089
 ~Object (this=0xaff8da4, __in_chrg=<optimized out>) at /build/buildd/unity-7.1.0+13.10.20130829.1/unity-shared/../UnityCore/GLibWrapper-inl.h:59
 ~bound_argument (this=0xaff8da4, __in_chrg=<optimized out>) at /usr/include/sigc++-2.0/sigc++/adaptors/bound_argument.h:50
 ~bind_functor (this=0xaff8d90, __in_chrg=<optimized out>) at /usr/include/sigc++-2.0/sigc++/adaptors/bind.h:1071

[Will Cooke (willcooke)]

As part of the big bug clear up for 16.04 LTS I am marking this bug as Wont Fix. These types of crasher are better handled by errors.ubutnu.com which can collate similar crash reports to help us identify persitent bugs rather than one-off crashes. Sorry we are not able to help with this specific issue. If you are still experiencing this crash, please re-open the bug and add the tag “desktop-bugscrub-reopen”. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BigDesktopBugScrub for more information.