Firefox drag and drop causes system freeze with reflection plugin

New tests show that this only happens with Compiz enabled. Adding compiz to affects.

Bug fixed itself in Compiz 0.6. :)

I have compiz 0.6.1 (as everyone I suppose) and I am still haveing this issue.

I'm setting it to confirmed since it is hanging my system a couple of times per day...

Please don't confirm your own bugs.

I'm also seeing this, on a Dellbuntu Inspiron, intel graphics card. 32 bit gutsy. It's not just firefox, I've also reproduced the problem using epiphany. It's somewhat annoying. I couldn't see anything of interest in the kernel log, syslog etc.

i'm also getting this issue. also an intel card (i945). i believe just clicking and dragging on the desktop causes this as well!

I agree. I've had this in openoffice and rhythmbox as well.

I think that it might be the reflection plugin in compiz that is doing this. When I switch off reflection, everything seems to work. When I switch it back on again, the system freezes again.

I can confirm that! Switching off reflection evades the crash for me too.

RAD. turning off the reflection plugin fixes this for me as well.

Rejected in firefox as bug is reproducible in other browsers.

Hi,
Thanks for your bug report and information reported.
Slight changes made to description to be clear to developers.
I have rejected the firefox report since this does not seem to be isolated to firefox as robbbbb and Leonard Broman.
It seems clear that the Reflection plugin is the cause of the bug, though it would also seem that this is isolated to intel graphics card - if users who have confirmed this bug could state their graphics card too this would be useful.

I am keeping this bug as Incomplete as we don't have crash dumps. These can be made using https://help.ubuntu.com/community/DebuggingSystemCrash Then I will be happy to confirm.

Thanks again,
Elliot

Hi,

here is the same.

Here is kmsg

...and Syslog

It's working fine since i disabled reflection on compiz.

YES! Thanks a lot! Turning off reflection solved my problem completely! Gosh I hated it because it always happened when I was writing a paper!

i think there are enough confirmations about the compiz reflection plugin causing this

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 - Hardy Heron. 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 [WWW] http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/ . Thanks again and we appreciate your help.

Also, lowering priority since we don't have reflection enabled by default.

I'm typing this from hardy (though I compiled and installed my own version of compiz, since I wanted some of the unsupported plugins, so I can't say for certain that its working with the ubuntu compiz). I'm not observing the problem in firefox-3.0. firefox 2 was removed from my system in an earlier update.

On hardy alpha 6 I am not able to reproduce this.