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compiz package

Freeze when pressing alt-space after scaling out (super-E)

Bug #129398 reported by Stephen Gornick
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compiz (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: compiz

My desktop will freeze requiring a power-reset after a combinatin of events in Compiz Fusion.

1.) Launch Terminal (or most any other app)
2.) Scale out using Super-key+E
3.) Press Alt-Space

The context menu for the Terminal window is opened in all the workspaces, not just the one where Terminal windows exists.
Additionally, the desktop is no longer usable.

In troubleshooting, I was occasionally able to restart X (CTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE) but in most instances, I had to power down and restart.

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Scott Norris (scottie-z) wrote :

Just to generate some activity here, I can confirm this behavior.

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Stephen Gornick (sgornick) wrote :

Changing status based on previous post where user confirmed the reported behavior.

Changed in compiz:
status: New → Confirmed
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Lox (gecka) wrote :

I can reproduce the bug too.

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John Gunderman (johngunderman) wrote :

Confirmed. Unfortunately, I lost some docs I was working on when it froze up

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Sarah Kowalik (hobbsee-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

reproducable here as well, even on the latest hardy. intel 945gm graphics card, with the new intel drivers. Both on EXA and XAA modes.

Travis Watkins (amaranth)
Changed in compiz:
importance: Undecided → Low
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Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues (josch-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

I can confirm this too on two laptops with hardy beta and intel graphics!

What can I do to solve this problem?

Can anyone of you guys also confirm additional freezes while using compiz fusion? The effect produced by super+e and alt+space is the _exact same_ that occurs on both of my laptops *sometimes*. (freeze but mouse is moveable and only SysRq Keys are working)
If this can be confirmed maybe we can also solve these bugs because they are related to each other:
 * https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/compiz/+bug/156289
 * https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/compiz/+bug/175744
 * https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/compiz/+bug/176589
 * https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/compiz/+bug/156289
these bugs are especially annoying because they are not reproduceable.
maybe thanks to this bugreport there is finally some method to force this behaviour on purpose and by fixing it, fix them too.

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Miklos Juhasz (mjuhasz) wrote :

Reproducable here as well on an up-to-date Hardy, I could only restart my machine by pressing CTRL+ALT+SysRq + REISUB. If I had had some unsaved documents I would have lost it.

Robert Ancell (robert-ancell)
summary: - compiz fusion freeze, windows key+e then alt-space
+ Freeze when pressing alt-space after scaling out (super-E)
Robert Ancell (robert-ancell)
Changed in compiz (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Triaged
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Mirco Müller (macslow) wrote :

I can't reproduce this on Jaunty (Ubuntu 9.04) with i945- and i965-based GPUs running compiz.

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Erkin Bahceci (cornelius1) wrote :

I can't reproduce this either. This is with latest compiz packages on Ubuntu 9.10, Nvidia GPU.

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Travis Watkins (amaranth) wrote :

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. The issue that you reported is one that should be reproducible with the live environment of the Desktop CD of the development release - Karmic Koala. It would help us greatly if you could test with it so we can work on getting it fixed in the next release of Ubuntu. You can find out more about the development release at http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/. Thanks again and we appreciate your help.

I cannot reproduce with karmic either.

Changed in compiz (Ubuntu):
status: Triaged → Incomplete
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Pedro Villavicencio (pedro) wrote :

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to New. Thanks again!.

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