Binary package hint: compiz
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:
In order to make a backtrace I looked at https:/ /wiki.ubuntu. com/Backtrace, but I cannot work out how to start compiz under gdb. I went into the Appearance setting and changed 'Visual Effects' to 'None' and then tried these two ideas, neither of which worked:
duncan@ duncan- laptop: ~$ gdb compiz-core 2>&1 | tee gdb-compiz-core.txt
GNU gdb 6.6-debian
Copyright (C) 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are
welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditions.
Type "show copying" to see the conditions.
There is absolutely no warranty for GDB. Type "show warranty" for details.
This GDB was configured as "i486-linux-gnu"...
compiz-core: No such file or directory.
(gdb)
duncan@ duncan- laptop: ~$ gdb compiz 2>&1 | tee gdb-compiz.txt
GNU gdb 6.6-debian
Copyright (C) 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are
welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditions.
Type "show copying" to see the conditions.
There is absolutely no warranty for GDB. Type "show warranty" for details.
This GDB was configured as "i486-linux-gnu"...
"/usr/bin/compiz": not in executable format: File format not recognized
(gdb)
Tell me what to do and I'll try it.