unity reboots when changing tabs in kile or evolution

[Mickael Vedrine]

Distribution : Maverick.

Problem with Kile : when I've loaded more than one file and wants to switch from one tab to another, Unity seems to turn off and reboot : the menus disappear, then the Kile window to (wallpaper appearing), then the Kile windos fits all the screen, and finally everything goes back to normal. But it happens 95% of the time when I switch from one tab to another.

With Evolution : same thing when switching from Mail to Calendar, or Tasks, but only the first time.

Also, in Evolution Tasks, the Actions menu is missing.

The Kile bug is a big problem and would prevent using Unity in the future.
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[David Barth (dbarth)]

Thanks for the report: can you enable apport and report the corresponding crasher? See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Apport

[Mickael Vedrine (mickael-vedrine)]

I did so just now for the bug with Kile.

I will also report the bug with Evolution.

[Alex Launi (alexlauni)]

This is almost definitely some kind of compiz reparenting issue.

[Alex Launi (alexlauni)]

Mickael, can you please run this in a terminal:
apport-collect 702157

[Mickael Vedrine (mickael-vedrine)]

Done. I hope it will help.

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[Omer Akram (om26er)]

Mickael, If you are still facing this issue in Latest Natty please report the bug using the bug window that appears after unity crashes, that way the bug report will have the logs required to understand the issue.

[Martin Marmolejo (martinianomarmolejo)]

This just started happening in my system. I have Ubuntu 12.04 but didn't do it when fresh installed. I think it is something that I just installed/Upgraded but don't know how to pinpoint the problem.

[Martin Marmolejo (martinianomarmolejo)]

tinkering with the system I uninstalled the "appmenu-qt" package and the problem stopped. Of course, the problem now is that those apps that use the package don't show their menus.

Good thing the HUD exists.

[Gianluca Bertaina (bertaina)]

I have the same problem with Kile. Also in my case the problem disappears if I uninstall appmenu-qt, but I don't consider this a fix, since the normal behavior should be to have the global menu working. Please tell me how to provide useful information.

[Gianluca Bertaina (bertaina)]

This bug partially overlaps with https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity/+bug/997444

[Alberto Salvia Novella (es20490446e)]

Status changed to 'Triaged' because the bug is:

- Valid.
- Well described.
- Reported in the upstream bug tracker (Launchpad).
- Ready to be worked on by a developer.

[N1ck 7h0m4d4k15 (nicktux)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug. We have tried to recreate this on the latest release of Ubuntu and cannot reproduce it. This bug is being marked as Invalid. If you believe the problem to still exist in the latest version of Ubuntu please comment on why that is the case and change the bug status to NEW.

[Alberto Salvia Novella (es20490446e)]

Rather than doing that, if you are still experiencing this bug in an Ubuntu release, do the following:

1. Add the release first name into the tag list.
2. Set this bug status back to "confirmed".

Thank you.