Comment 84 for bug 145360

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restelli@gmail.com (restelli) wrote : Re: [Bug 145360] Re: compiz.real crashed with SIGSEGV

I thought I marked as a duplicate. My problem went away after
rebooting. A very Microsoft solution, I know.

Dan

On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 10:53 AM, Jeeves_Moss <email address hidden> wrote:
> Ok, thanks. Any luck on getting it solved? It's kinda hard to work
> when your system is always crashing
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> On Thu, 2009-02-05 at 14:17 +0000, Duncan Lithgow wrote:
>> Is this bug actually a duplicate of #131679? That's a very similar bug.
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> compiz.real crashed with SIGSEGV
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/145360
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> Status in Compiz: Confirmed
> Status in "compiz" source package in Ubuntu: Triaged
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> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: compiz
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> ProblemType: Crash
> Architecture: i386
> Date: Wed Sep 26 22:13:05 2007
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.10
> ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/compiz.real
> NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
> Package: compiz-core 1:0.5.2+git20070918-0ubuntu5
> PackageArchitecture: i386
> ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/compiz.real --ignore-desktop-hints --replace --loose-binding --sm-client-id default0 ccp
> ProcCwd: /home/duncan
> ProcEnviron:
> PATH=/home/duncan/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
> LANG=en_DK.UTF-8
> SHELL=/bin/bash
> Signal: 11
> SourcePackage: compiz
> Stacktrace:
> #0 0x08054b7d in ?? ()
> #1 0x0807b908 in ?? ()
> #2 0x00000003 in ?? ()
> #3 0x000000fa in ?? ()
> #4 0x00000000 in ?? ()
> StacktraceTop:
> ?? ()
> ?? ()
> ?? ()
> ?? ()
> ?? ()
> Title: compiz.real crashed with SIGSEGV
> Uname: Linux duncan-laptop 2.6.22-12-generic #1 SMP Sun Sep 23 18:11:30 GMT 2007 i686 GNU/Linux
> UserGroups: adm admin audio cdrom dialout dip floppy lpadmin netdev plugdev powerdev scanner video
>
> The different reports have different ideas of what triggers this bug, this is what happened to me when I first reported it:
> * Set Visual Effects to 'Normal'. Restarted X (CTRL+ALT+DEL) and it still worked, rebooted and it still worked.
> * Set Visual Effects to 'Extra'. Restarted X as above and it still worked, rebooted and it worked (it seems to still be working now) so I started Evolution as soon as I grabbed the top of the window to check the window wobble effect was working, then this crash. I must emphasize that compiz has not actually stopped and is still working. But something generated the crash report, so here it is:
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