compiz crashed with SIGSEGV in getCompPluginVTable20090315_unityshell()

Bug #1162075 reported by Rainer Rohde
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This bug affects 12 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
unity (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
Medium
Unassigned

Bug Description

Note: I am testing Unity 7.

The latest daily apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade run broke Unity. I am presented with an empty desktop. No Launcher, no Panel.

When trying to launch unity from the terminal, it ends up with a core dump.

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04
Package: unity 6.12.0daily13.03.29.1-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-8.17-generic 3.8.0
Uname: Linux 3.8.0-8-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.9.2-0ubuntu5
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri Mar 29 17:46:39 2013
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/compiz
MarkForUpload: True
ProcCmdline: compiz
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SegvAnalysis:
 Segfault happened at: 0x7fabcc5bc455 <getCompPluginVTable20090315_unityshell+21>: mov (%rbx),%rax
 PC (0x7fabcc5bc455) ok
 source "(%rbx)" (0x00000000) not located in a known VMA region (needed readable region)!
 destination "%rax" ok
SegvReason: reading NULL VMA
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: unity
StacktraceTop:
 getCompPluginVTable20090315_unityshell () from /usr/lib/compiz/libunityshell.so
 ?? () from /usr/lib/libcompiz_core.so.ABI-20130125
 CompPlugin::load(char const*) () from /usr/lib/libcompiz_core.so.ABI-20130125
 compiz::private_screen::PluginManager::updatePlugins(CompScreen*, std::vector<CompOption::Value, std::allocator<CompOption::Value> > const&) () from /usr/lib/libcompiz_core.so.ABI-20130125
 PrivateScreen::processEvents() () from /usr/lib/libcompiz_core.so.ABI-20130125
Title: compiz crashed with SIGSEGV in getCompPluginVTable20090315_unityshell()
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups:

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Rainer Rohde (rainer-rohde) wrote :
information type: Private → Public
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Apport retracing service (apport) wrote :

StacktraceTop:
 getCompPluginVTable20090315_unityshell () at /build/buildd/unity-6.12.0daily13.03.29.1/plugins/unityshell/src/unityshell.cpp:80
 dlloaderLoadPlugin (p=0x1763590, path=<optimized out>, name=<optimized out>) at /build/buildd/compiz-0.9.9~daily13.03.29/src/plugin.cpp:229
 CompPlugin::load (name=0x1642a48 "unityshell") at /build/buildd/compiz-0.9.9~daily13.03.29/src/plugin.cpp:486
 compiz::private_screen::PluginManager::updatePlugins (this=this@entry=0x1586180, screen=0x1581920, extraPluginsRequested=...) at /build/buildd/compiz-0.9.9~daily13.03.29/src/screen.cpp:1116
 PrivateScreen::processEvents (this=0x1585c70) at /build/buildd/compiz-0.9.9~daily13.03.29/src/screen.cpp:807

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Apport retracing service (apport) wrote : ThreadStacktrace.txt
Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Medium
tags: removed: need-amd64-retrace
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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