Unity-2d-shell crashes on startup on 64bit machines with 20+ tiles in launcher

Bug #967012 reported by Albert Astals Cid
22
This bug affects 3 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
unity-2d
Fix Released
Critical
Albert Astals Cid
unity-2d (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Critical
Unassigned

Bug Description

In a 64 bit machine (32 bit seems not affected, at least in a VM) add lots of favorites to the launcher (at least 22).

That makes that almost each start of unity-2d-shell crashes (there will be the odd one that works)

Gerry Boland (gerboland)
Changed in unity-2d:
status: New → Confirmed
importance: Undecided → Critical
milestone: none → 5.10.0
summary: - Unity-2d-shell crashes on startup
+ Unity-2d-shell crashes on startup on 64bit machines with 20+ tiles in
+ launcher
Changed in unity-2d (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
importance: Undecided → Critical
Changed in unity-2d:
assignee: nobody → Albert Astals Cid (aacid)
Gerry Boland (gerboland)
Changed in unity-2d:
status: Confirmed → Fix Committed
Changed in unity-2d:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package unity-2d - 5.10.0-0ubuntu1

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unity-2d (5.10.0-0ubuntu1) precise-proposed; urgency=low

  * New upstream release:
    - unity-2d-shell crashed with SIGSEGV in
      QCoreApplication::notifyInternal() (LP: #918566)
    - Unity-2d-shell crashes on startup on 64bit machines with 20+ tiles in
      launcher (LP: #967012)
    - Unity 2-d launcher doesn't hide or display properly (LP: #940590)
    - [dash] search terms aren't applied on lens change / dash show
      (LP: #947985)
    - [5.8 pre staging] "sticky edge" option does nothing visible
      (LP: #961285)
    - [dash] Maximise, then restore - much of background not removed from
      screen (LP: #968215)
    - [hud] shows up when using ctrl+alt and pressing alt first (LP: #972318)
    - [UIFe] Dash - No message displayed when no results are returned in the
      Dash (LP: #711199)
    - Missing lens shortcuts (Super-A, Super-F) (LP: #834078)
    - [dash] Unable to scroll Filter Results (LP: #920878)
    - [launcher] stays open if you mouseOut before reveal animation completes
      (LP: #943296)
    - HUD on wrong screen on mutli monitor system (LP: #947145)
    - [a11y] Orca reports "Shell" when opening HUD, Dash or Launcher
      (LP: #948033)
    - multimonitor: Please give me a way to turn off sticky monitor edges
      (LP: #946104)
    - [dash] Esc key behavior inconsistent with Unity (LP: #966121)
    - toggling the spread from the launcher does not work (LP: #968146)
    - unity-2d-shell crashed with SIGSEGV in KeyMonitor::registerEvents()
      (LP: #965464)
    - [Dash] Focus is lost when switching with the mouse (LP: #974235)
    - Multiple items selected in HUD list (LP: #948441)
    - Hud hides launcher even if set to always show (LP: #948960)
    - [launcher] Pointer reveal barrier should be 1 way only (LP: #960175)
    - [hud] connection to HUD being created on startup (LP: #965106)
    - [dash] On 1024x786 screen, dash not fullscreen so border truncated
      (LP: #967305)
  * debian/20_ubuntu-2d-gconf-default:
    - set a default key for HUD showing on Alt, in case unity-3d isn't
      installed or run before unity-2d.
  * debian/control:
    - bump libnux-2.0-dev to latest for ABI break
 -- Didier Roche <email address hidden> Thu, 12 Apr 2012 11:02:08 +0200

Changed in unity-2d (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
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