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metacity package

metacity crash with alt + spacebar

Bug #559004 reported by Marcos Negrete Cedeño
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metacity (Ubuntu)
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Nominated for Lucid by Seth Kriticos

Bug Description

Binary package hint: metacity

Hi. I tried to maximize a terminal window pressing alt+space bar, instead of showing the window menu metacity crashed. Apport tried to get crash info but show a message like "metacity error in assertion, can't get crash info". After crash i had to reboot.

I'm using Ubuntu in a laptop (AMD64).

lsb_release -rd output:
Description: Ubuntu lucid (development branch)
Release: 10.04

apt-cache policy output:
metacity:
  Instalados: 1:2.30.0-0ubuntu1
  Candidato: 1:2.30.0-0ubuntu1
  Tabla de versión:
 *** 1:2.30.0-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://mx.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

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lp:ubuntu/lucid/metacity
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Marcos Negrete Cedeño (marcos-negrete) wrote :

i found more info in /var/crash/_usr_bin_metacity.1000.crash:

Title: metacity crashed with SIGABRT in raise()
UnreportableReason: The program crashed on an assertion failure, but the message could not be retrieved. Apport does not support reporting these crashes.
XsessionErrors:
 (polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:1132): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization_value != 0' failed

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Hariharan Iyer (hariharan022) wrote :

I've experienced the same crash. I've attached the crash report for your reference.

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Seth Kriticos (seth-kriticos) wrote :

I can confirm this bug. Metacity crashes when doing Alt+Space or right clicking the title bar with the mouse. Happens since the newest update of metacity today.

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Hariharan Iyer (hariharan022) wrote :

To add to that, the problem is not just when you use the keybinding. Even clicking on the menu button causes the crash. If it helps, the only change I've made to the default install is to enable compositing.

Seth Kriticos (seth-kriticos)
Changed in metacity (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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zhangsong023 (zhangsong023) wrote :

Same here, even right clicking on any window title bar will make metacity crash.

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AlexT (cryptoquick) wrote :

I'd just like to stress that this is a pretty irritating bug, and it's a real showstopper for some functionality. I get this by right clicking the title bar on a program, and also by pressing alt-spacebar. (after a few seconds delay)

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package metacity - 1:2.30.1-0ubuntu1

---------------
metacity (1:2.30.1-0ubuntu1) lucid; urgency=low

  * New upsteam release:
    - Fix crash when right-clicking on window frame (Edward)
      (LP: #559368, #559111, #559004, #558893)
  * debian/patches/90_autotools.patch:
    - refreshed
 -- Didier Roche <email address hidden> Fri, 09 Apr 2010 20:26:31 +0200

Changed in metacity (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
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