Ubuntu
compiz package

Settings lost after crash

Bug #264748 reported by h3 on 2008-09-04

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #253403: Compiz default backend is Flat-file, but should be GConf. Edit Remove

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	compiz (Ubuntu)	Triaged	Low	Unassigned

Bug Description

I'm not sure which component are involved in this bug .. Anyhow, time to time Gnome (with desktop effect enabled) crashes, become unresponsive to the point where I have to kill Xorg. Sometimes it just reboot by itself.

The thing is, when I return to gnome, all my compiz settings are gone. They're back to default.

It's really annoying. It occurs at work and at home, at least once a week.

My two PC are AMD 64 running Ubuntu Hardy (32bit) with compiz enabled. Both video card are Nvidia.

Today I got really tired of it and I decided to scan my system log for something unusual, I found that before the crash
occurs, there is lots of process that get killed with a "out of memory" message. It's pretty much unlikely that my systems lacks of memory to run Ubuntu .. both have 4GB of ram.

I'm using 2.6.24-19-generic kernel at work and 2.6.24-19-server at home (to get the full 4GB of ram instead of 3.2)

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h3 (h3) wrote on 2008-09-04:

Several "out of memory" messages Edit (163.5 KiB, text/plain)

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Andres Mujica (andres.mujica) wrote on 2009-01-12:

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This bug did not have a package associated with it, which is important for ensuring that it gets looked at by the proper developers. You can learn more about finding the right package at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/FindRightPackage . I have classified this bug as a bug in COMPIZ.
For future reference you might be interested to know that a lot of applications have bug reporting functionality built in to them. This can be accessed via the Report a Problem option in the Help menu for the application with which you are having an issue. You can learn more about this feature at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ReportingBugs.

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Robert Ancell (robert-ancell) wrote on 2009-04-08:

Thanks for your bug report. Is this occuring with Ubuntu 8.10 or 9.04 beta?

Changed in compiz (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Incomplete

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h3 (h3) wrote on 2009-04-08:

@Robert Ancell

Well at the time I reported this bug I'm pretty sure I was on 8.04.

Now I'm on 8.10 and the crashes are mostly gone but times to time when Compiz crash expectingly, I still occasionally lose all my Compiz preferences. I exported my them into a flat file and reload them when they vanish, but it's still mildly annoying.

I remember trying to switch from the gconf backend to flat file and it didn't help much.

I wish I could give you more details..

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Robert Ancell (robert-ancell) wrote on 2009-04-08:

Thanks for the feedback. I'll mark this as a "all settings lost after crash" as that seems to be the worst behaviour here (crashing is what compiz does well ;) ). It's low importance as others don't seem to be getting the problem so if you are shout out if this is widespread.

Changed in compiz (Ubuntu):
importance:	Undecided → Low
status:	Incomplete → Triaged
summary:	- Gnome crash, automatically reboot and lose compiz settings + Settings lost after crash