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metacity package

[apport] metacity crashed with SIGSEGV

Bug #85763 reported by Anders on 2007-02-17

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Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	metacity (Ubuntu)	Invalid	Medium	Ubuntu Desktop Bugs

Bug Description

Binary package hint: metacity

to reproduce:
sudo apt-get install desktop-effects
click Control Centre -> Desktop Effects -> Enable Desktop effects

Instant crash (but I'm given option to revert to old settings.

Have nVidia drivers installed, dual screen setup

ProblemType: Crash
Date: Sat Feb 17 11:54:45 2007
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/metacity
Package: metacity 1:2.17.5-0ubuntu1
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/metacity --sm-client-id=default0
ProcCwd: /home/andersja
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=en_GB.UTF-8
PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/games
LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: metacity
Stacktrace:
Using host libthread_db library "/lib/tls/i686/cmov/libthread_db.so.1".
#0 0x0805d6f9 in ?? ()
StacktraceTop: ?? ()
ThreadStacktrace:

Uname: Linux plasken 2.6.20-6-generic #2 SMP Wed Jan 31 20:53:39 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux
UserGroups: adm admin audio cdrom dialout dip floppy fuse lpadmin plugdev scanner video

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Anders (andersja+launchpad-net) wrote on 2007-02-17:

#1

CoreDump.gz Edit (239.1 KiB, application/x-gzip)
Dependencies.txt Edit (2.4 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Disassembly.txt Edit (1.2 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcMaps.txt Edit (15.8 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcStatus.txt Edit (668 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Registers.txt Edit (552 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

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Anders (andersja+launchpad-net) wrote on 2007-02-17:

#2

xorg.conf in case it helps debugging Edit (6.9 KiB, text/plain)

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote on 2007-02-17:

#3

Thank you for your bug. Due to a bug with linux 2.6.20-6 the coredump is not usable, could you try getting a new one when running the update 2.6.20-8 package?

Changed in metacity:
assignee:	nobody → desktop-bugs
importance:	Undecided → Medium
status:	Unconfirmed → Needs Info

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Anders (andersja+launchpad-net) wrote on 2007-02-17:

#4

Thanks for the quick reply. Installed the 2.6.20-8 and the PC no longer starts up. Unrelated bug, seems the identification my hard drives was juggled around, will file separate bug for this.

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Freddy Martinez (freddymartinez9) wrote on 2007-03-21:

#5

Does this still happen Anders? If so, can you attach the report found in /var/crash to this bug report? Have you sorted out your HDD issue?

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote on 2007-03-21:

#6

Freddy, why do you ask for a crash file? the bug already has one

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Freddy Martinez (freddymartinez9) wrote on 2007-03-23:

#7

Sebastian, I asked because the your comment above said the core dump is not usable with that kernel. I was under the impression that we needed a new core dump to retrace it. Am I mistaken? If so, let me know so I can not do this.

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote on 2007-03-23:

#8

right, an updated crash file would be useful, the working of your stock reply could be changed though

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Anders (andersja+launchpad-net) wrote on 2007-03-23:

#9

Fresh metacity crash report Edit (19.2 KiB, text/plain)

Fresh crash report attached.
My unrelated hard drive bug is Bug #84964 (still not resolved)

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote on 2007-03-24:

#10

the crash file has no usuable coredump

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Martin Kuehn (mkuehn) wrote on 2007-04-13:

#11

metacity crash Edit (899.5 KiB, text/plain)

I am a victim of the Kernel 2.6.20-13+-14 acpi bug #96480, so I have to use kernel 2.6.20-12 of earlier to run Feisty.
After the last software updates this morning metacity crashed for the first time (see attached file).
There's also a problem with the GNOME Desktop. The titlebars of all windows are missing. I cannot change the window settings "window manager <unknown>".
Maybe the recent updates are incompatible to the old kernel 2.6.20-12

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C de-Avillez (hggdh2) wrote on 2007-04-13:

#12

@Martin: for the missing windows settings: open a terminal under your X session, and run 'metacity --replace'. This will not solve the cause, but will allow you to use the X session.

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Martin Kuehn (mkuehn) wrote on 2007-04-13:

#13

Thank you hggdh, the tilebars are back again.
It's probably a configuration problem.If I create a new user account and log in to it, all settings seem to be ok.
Before I used the command 'metacity --replace' the gconf entries
/desktop/gnome/applications/window-manager/default and
/desktop/gnome/applications/window-manager/current were empty.

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Daniel Holbach (dholbach) wrote on 2007-05-23:

#14

Is the problem resolved for everybody now?

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Daniel Holbach (dholbach) wrote on 2007-06-28:

#15

As described in the previous comments, your report lacks the information we need to investigate the problem further. We'll close this report for now - please reopen it if you can give us the missing information.

Changed in metacity:
status:	Incomplete → Invalid

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Anders (andersja+launchpad-net) wrote on 2007-06-28:

#16

When I go to Desktop Effects and try to enable it no longer crashes but it also does not work. Presumably because I have two monitors?
Anyway I can confirm it no longer crashes as in the original bug report.
Regards,
Anders

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