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compiz crashed with SIGSEGV in PrivateWindow::getModalTransient()

Bug #726235 reported by Brian Buchanan on 2011-02-27

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	Unity	Fix Released	High	Didier Roche-Tolomelli	Unity 3.6 "alpha-3"
	unity (Ubuntu)	Fix Released	High	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: unity

After activating the NVIDIA experimental drivers and restarting, the unity bar was constantly hiding and unhiding and flickering.
While I was trying to log out, compiz crashed and asked to generate an error report.

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: unity 3.4.6-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-5.32-generic 2.6.38-rc6
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-5-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Feb 27 21:21:29 2011
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/compiz
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release i386 (20101007)
ProcCmdline: compiz
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SegvAnalysis:
Segfault happened at: 0x807d071 <_ZN13PrivateWindow17getModalTransientEv+17>: mov 0x4(%edi),%esi
PC (0x0807d071) ok
source "0x4(%edi)" (0x00000004) not located in a known VMA region (needed readable region)!
destination "%esi" ok
SegvReason: reading NULL VMA
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: unity
StacktraceTop:
PrivateWindow::getModalTransient() ()
CompWindow::moveInputFocusTo() ()
UnityScreen::OnLauncherEndKeyNav(_GVariant*, void*) () from /usr/lib/compiz/libunityshell.so
?? () from /usr/lib/compiz/libunityshell.so
?? () from /lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
Title: compiz crashed with SIGSEGV in PrivateWindow::getModalTransient()
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare
XsessionErrors: (nautilus:1856): GConf-CRITICAL **: gconf_value_free: assertion `value != NULL' failed

Tags:

Related branches

lp:~didrocks/unity/misc-launcher-fixes

Merged into lp:unity at revision 900

Jason Smith (community): Approve on 2011-02-28

Superseded for merging into lp:~sao/unity/show_launcher_in_navmode

Unity Team: Pending requested 2011-02-28

lp:~ubuntu-desktop/unity/ubuntu (Merged)

lp:ubuntu/natty/unity

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Brian Buchanan (nighthawk-uk) wrote on 2011-02-27:

Dependencies.txt Edit (5.1 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Disassembly.txt Edit (1.4 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcMaps.txt Edit (41.5 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcStatus.txt Edit (780 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Registers.txt Edit (512 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Stacktrace.txt Edit (1017 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ThreadStacktrace.txt Edit (2.6 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

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Apport retracing service (apport) wrote on 2011-02-28:

StacktraceTop:
PrivateWindow::getModalTransient (this=0x0) at /build/buildd/compiz-0.9.4/src/window.cpp:1900
CompWindow::moveInputFocusTo (this=0xb15a7be8) at /build/buildd/compiz-0.9.4/src/window.cpp:1959
UnityScreen::OnLauncherEndKeyNav(_GVariant*, void*) () from /usr/lib/compiz/libunityshell.so
ubus_server_pump_message_queue(_UBusServer*) () from /usr/lib/compiz/libunityshell.so
g_idle_dispatch () from /lib/libglib-2.0.so.0

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Apport retracing service (apport) wrote on 2011-02-28: Stacktrace.txt

Stacktrace.txt Edit (2.0 KiB, text/plain)

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Apport retracing service (apport) wrote on 2011-02-28: ThreadStacktrace.txt

ThreadStacktrace.txt Edit (3.8 KiB, text/plain)

Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
importance:	Undecided → Medium
tags:	removed: need-i386-retrace

Sebastien Bacher (seb128) on 2011-02-28

visibility:

private → public

Didier Roche-Tolomelli (didrocks) on 2011-02-28

Changed in unity:
status:	New → Triaged
Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Triaged
Changed in unity:
importance:	Undecided → High
Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
importance:	Medium → High
Changed in unity:
assignee:	nobody → Didier Roche (didrocks)
milestone:	none → 3.6

Didier Roche-Tolomelli (didrocks) on 2011-02-28

Changed in unity:
status:	Triaged → Fix Committed

Didier Roche-Tolomelli (didrocks) on 2011-03-01

Changed in unity:
status:	Fix Committed → Fix Released

Revision history for this message

Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2011-03-01:

This bug was fixed in the package unity - 3.6.0-0ubuntu1

---------------
unity (3.6.0-0ubuntu1) natty; urgency=low

  * New upstream release.
    - Menu bar becomes blank periodically (LP: #683065)
    - Unity does not update when screen resolution changes (LP: #684539)
    - [dash] Keyboard navigation not implemented as specified (LP: #608132)
    - Dash - build the Desktop Dash (LP: #683719)
    - Quicklists not working (LP: #719780)
    - Launcher auto hide animation has a life of it's own / Unity launcher
      constantly sliding in and out without user interaction (LP: #717364)
    - compiz crashed with SIGSEGV in PrivateWindow::getModalTransient()
      (LP: #726235)
    - Don't show launcher number overlays on tap of super (LP: #726630)
    - Optimize texture memory usage for unexposed view icons (LP: #609994)
    - Unity should handle video-out keycodes that correspond to Super + P +
      Enter (LP: #632632)
    - dash - wrong count of remaining items to see (LP: #662605)
    - dash - x search box button visibility (LP: #662614)
    - Touch window management gesture previews (LP: #683688)
    - unity not working on rotated displays (LP: #694596)
    - unity main top bar in displays in wrong area (multi-head issue)
      (LP: #707209)
    - unity place group visual improvements (LP: #714528)
    - Implement ref_state_set for toplevel ATK objects in the panel service
      (LP: #715299)
    - Alt + F1 doesn't show the launcher if hidden (LP: #717125)
    - Keyboard navigation: Choosing a window from launcher doesn't change
      input focus. (LP: #721811)
    - Quicklists not closing when losing focus (LP: #724739)
    - wrong animation in the launcher (LP: #724956)
    - Window management - windows go below launcher and panel (LP: #725463)
    - Media and PrintScreen keys don't work (LP: #621887)
    - super-shortcuts should be "serializable" (LP: #638936)
    - Chromium icon in Unity is distorted / some scaled distored in the unity
      place applications (LP: #670169)
    - launcher stays on screen when it shouldn't | false show/hide positives
      on the launcher (LP: #711176)
    - Keyboard navigation: no public API to know the current Laucher Icon
      selected when key nav is activated (LP: #722660)
    - Require to implement AtkSelection on the Launcher (LP: #723804)
    - LauncherIcon accessibility support requires to expose the selection
      state (LP: #723806)
    - Add keyboard shortcuts for launching separate instances of applications
      (LP: #724865)
  * debian/control:
    - dep on latest nux
-- Didier Roche <email address hidden> Tue, 01 Mar 2011 14:27:16 +0100

This bug was fixed in the package unity - 3.6.0-0ubuntu1

---------------
unity (3.6.0-0ubuntu1) natty; urgency=low

* New upstream release.
    - Menu bar becomes blank periodically (LP: #683065)
    - Unity does not update when screen resolution changes (LP: #684539)
    - [dash] Keyboard navigation not implemented as specified (LP: #608132)
    - Dash - build the Desktop Dash (LP: #683719)
    - Quicklists not working (LP: #719780)
    - Launcher auto hide animation has a life of it's own / Unity launcher
      constantly sliding in and out without user interaction (LP: #717364)
    - compiz crashed with SIGSEGV in PrivateWindow::getModalTransient()
      (LP: #726235)
    - Don't show launcher number overlays on tap of super (LP: #726630)
    - Optimize texture memory usage for unexposed view icons (LP: #609994)
    - Unity should handle video-out keycodes that correspond to Super + P +
      Enter (LP: #632632)
    - dash - wrong count of remaining items to see (LP: #662605)
    - dash - x search box button visibility (LP: #662614)
    - Touch window management gesture previews (LP: #683688)
    - unity not working on rotated displays (LP: #694596)
    - unity main top bar in displays in wrong area (multi-head issue)
      (LP: #707209)
    - unity place group visual improvements (LP: #714528)
    - Implement ref_state_set for toplevel ATK objects in the panel service
      (LP: #715299)
    - Alt + F1 doesn't show the launcher if hidden (LP: #717125)
    - Keyboard navigation: Choosing a window from launcher doesn't change
      input focus. (LP: #721811)
    - Quicklists not closing when losing focus (LP: #724739)
    - wrong animation in the launcher (LP: #724956)
    - Window management - windows go below launcher and panel (LP: #725463)
    - Media and PrintScreen keys don't work (LP: #621887)
    - super-shortcuts should be "serializable" (LP: #638936)
    - Chromium icon in Unity is distorted / some scaled distored in the unity
      place applications (LP: #670169)
    - launcher stays on screen when it shouldn't | false show/hide positives
      on the launcher (LP: #711176)
    - Keyboard navigation: no public API to know the current Laucher Icon
      selected when key nav is activated (LP: #722660)
    - Require to implement AtkSelection on the Launcher (LP: #723804)
    - LauncherIcon accessibility support requires to expose the selection
      state (LP: #723806)
    - Add keyboard shortcuts for launching separate instances of applications
      (LP: #724865)
  * debian/control:
    - dep on latest nux
 -- Didier Roche <didrocks@ubuntu.com>   Tue, 01 Mar 2011 14:27:16 +0100

Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
status:	Triaged → Fix Released

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