Comment 8 for bug 1283671

I installed Ubuntu. It boots and the desktop appears. As soon as I try to start any app from the launcher or menu (eg. Settings app) the desktop freezes. After around 10-20 seconds the window decorations, launcher and top menu bar disappear. Most apps do not even start up (Firefox works though). Occasionally I get an apport window about "compiz" having crashed, sometimes it is also a window informing me about an "internal error" in Ubuntu.

I am running Trusty in a Virtualbox VM from a 12.04 host. I installed the guest additions but this did not change anything.

It is trivial to reproduce this. What other info do you need?