compiz crashed with SIGSEGV in unity::launcher::BFBLauncherIcon::OnOverlayShown()

[Nicolás Abel Carbone]

The crash happened when trying to open a folder in nautilus. It also crashed bamfdaemon as seen in bug report #1232824

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10
Package: unity 7.1.1+13.10.20130927.1-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.11.0-9.16-generic 3.11.2
Uname: Linux 3.11.0-9-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.12.5-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
CrashCounter: 1
Date: Sun Sep 29 19:22:00 2013
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/compiz
InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-09-23 (5 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 13.10 "Saucy Salamander" - Beta amd64 (20130923.1)
MarkForUpload: True
ProcCmdline: compiz
SegvAnalysis:
 Segfault happened at: 0x7fdb14dd3158 <_ZN3nux10RWPropertyIbE3SetERKb+8>: cmpq $0x0,0x48(%rdi)
 PC (0x7fdb14dd3158) ok
 source "$0x0" ok
 destination "0x48(%rdi)" (0x00000150) not located in a known VMA region (needed writable region)!
SegvReason: writing NULL VMA
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: unity
StacktraceTop:
 nux::RWProperty<bool>::Set(bool const&) () from /usr/lib/compiz/libunityshell.so
 unity::launcher::ApplicationLauncherIcon::Stick(bool) () from /usr/lib/compiz/libunityshell.so
 unity::launcher::SoftwareCenterLauncherIcon::OnFinished(_GVariant*) () from /usr/lib/compiz/libunityshell.so
 unity::glib::DBusProxy::Impl::OnProxySignal(_GDBusProxy*, char const*, char const*, _GVariant*) () from /usr/lib/libunity-core-6.0.so.8
 ffi_call_unix64 () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libffi.so.6
Title: compiz crashed with SIGSEGV in nux::RWProperty<bool>::Set()
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups: adm cdrom dip lpadmin plugdev sambashare sudo

[Apport retracing service (apport)]

StacktraceTop:
 unity::launcher::BFBLauncherIcon::OnOverlayShown (this=0x108, data=<optimized out>, visible=<optimized out>) at /build/buildd/unity-7.1.1+13.10.20131004/launcher/BFBLauncherIcon.cpp:71
 __GI___libc_malloc (bytes=33) at malloc.c:2859
 operator new (sz=0) at ../../../../src/libstdc++-v3/libsupc++/new_op.cc:51
 ?? () from /tmp/apport_sandbox_lARqnW/usr/lib/libunity-core-6.0.so.8
 ?? ()

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Will Cooke (willcooke)]

As part of the big bug clear up for 16.04 LTS I am marking this bug as Wont Fix.
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