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KyL416 (kyl416) wrote :

This began when I upgraded to 16.10, it always happens when using Gimp under Gnome-flashback. Occasionally it happens with other apps too.

The quickest way to reproduce is to open up an image in Gimp, select all, copy and then exit. That's when Metacity crashes.

The bad part is, if I don't run 'metacity --replace' before launching gimp, it causes the entire session to quit and go back to the login screen. (I know why it does that, but there should be some better error handling there so people don't lose their work or any other in progress things, at least with just metactity crashed there's a way of restarting metacity and keeping the current session, as well as the ability to save work in other applications before restarting)

Ubuntu 16.10
Metacity 1:3.20.3-1ubuntu2

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.10
Package: metacity 1:3.20.3-1ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.8.0-26.28-generic 4.8.0
Uname: Linux 4.8.0-26-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.3-0ubuntu8
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: GNOME-Flashback:Unity
Date: Mon Oct 31 21:57:27 2016
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/metacity
ExecutableTimestamp: 1475585823
InstallationDate: Installed on 2010-12-09 (2154 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release amd64 (20101007)
ProcCmdline: metacity --replace
ProcCwd: /home/kyle
Signal: 5
SourcePackage: metacity
StacktraceTop:
 XGetWindowAttributes (dpy=0x556f34ceed40, w=<optimized out>, attr=<optimized out>) at ../../src/GetWAttrs.c:149
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Title: metacity crashed with signal 5 in XGetWindowAttributes()
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
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