unity-window-decorator crashes with SIGSEGV when closing Java windows

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it's likely bug #724874 or similar

I have the same issue with Matlab R2010b, the window border disappear as soon as the main window opens. I can still move windows around and change workspace.

Matlab's front end is in JAVA and it uses a bundled JRE (build 1.6.0_17-b04).
When configured to use OpenJDK 6b22-1.10-3ubuntu1 it runs flawlessly.

I get the same behavior while running Oracle SQL Developer. It's also a JAVA based program. It causes the window borders and controls to disappear when it pops up a notification window.

I can easily reproduce this behavior. Closing modal Java windows causes window border and controls to disappear. Pleas let me know if there is anything I can do to for a work around. Re-staring unity 20 times a day is getting old.

Doing a backtrace on compiz doesn't give me anything... Not sure how to get debugging symbols for compiz

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Reading symbols from /usr/bin/compiz...(no debugging symbols found)...done.
(gdb) backtrace full
No stack.
(gdb) info registers
The program has no registers now.
(gdb) x/16i $pc
No registers.
(gdb) thread apply all backtrace
(gdb) quit

Finally was able to get a backtrace or unity-window-decorator which appears to be the culprit.

I constantly get this bug while running Oracle SQL Developer.

I did encounter this too, with Squirrel SQL, and other Java applications. I want to use Natty with Unity for Java development, but tends to become more unlikely :-(

It happens to me too sometimes when I close modal dialogs, this is the output of compiz :

(unity-window-decorator:3820): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_get_data: assertion `G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed
Segmentation fault

I attach a simple java program to reproduce the bug, Is a JFrame that opens a JDialog that opens a new instance of this JDialog modal to the JFrame, open 3 or more JDialog an then close them until the window border disappear.

I cannot reproduce this bug with OpenJDK-jre but only with sun-jre.

I confirm this, I've tested it with the current OpenJDK-jre, sun-jre-6u24 and sun-jre-6u25, the problems appears only with sun-jre

I configured Oracle Sqldeveloper to use OpenJDK instead of the Sun JDK, and this solves the problems with the window borders disappearing.

Hopefully Oracle/Sun will patch their JDK, since other features of sqldeveloper seem to work better with the Sun JDK.

I confirm this bug, very annoying.

I don't remember having this bug in Ubuntu 10.10 with compiz effects (can someone confirm this?), so I think the bug is unity-compiz - sun-jre related, if that's the case, I think is much more feasible fix this in unity-compiz, than waiting a fix from Oracle.

I take back my previous statement. I still have disappearing window border, but they are not as frequent. So far it only happened once upon closing sqldeveloper. I think the modal windows no longer trigger the bug though.

I can generate the bug closing several JDialogs modal to a same JFrame. Try the app I made to generate this bug (post n°11), with this app I can always reproduce the bug.
Link:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/compiz/+bug/727143/+attachment/2109053/+files/CompizWindowsBorderDisapperTest.tar.gz
The jar executable is inside the dist directory

I also confirm this bug. It hapens very often.

This bug is making natty nearly unusable.

I've put a backtrace (with debug info) and an ltrace in bug #727143, which I've marked as a duplicate of this bug.

I just built a new development machine and I am having the same problem as everyone else when I attempt to run Jetbrains IntelliJ IDEA 10.x Ultimate on a fully updated Ubuntu 11.x(Natty) x86_64. It is *extremely* annoying because it makes it difficult to run the debugging console on my other screen. I'm rebuilding the system in Ubuntu 10.x and if I still have this problem after that then I'm going back to Fedora.....

John: to avoid this problem just install Unity 2D, the classic desktop with no effects.

I'm running Gnome Classic (no effects), but I think we all want the full experience. :)

I actually prefer Gnome Classic. How do I switch from unity?

Claudiu: I want desktop effects too!!, but until this problem is solved I think is a good option using Unity-2d with no effects (in my case is better than downgrading to 10.10)

To enable Ubuntu classic install Unity 2d and then choose Ubuntu Classic in the login screen.

John: Either way, Unity or Gnome Classic (I assume you meant the effects enabled Gnome Classic), you'll end up to the no effects desktop. Just logout, select your account, select the new desktop at the bottom, and log in.

Nerdknight: There is more to Unity than just the launcher/search paradigm, since it uses easier window management, thanks to Compiz. Am I wrong?

I hope this issue will be fixed soon.

(Classic Gnome with desktop effects enabled)
If I have this problem and do ALT+F2 'compiz --replace' it solves itself and does not happen again.

ppareit: I tested it on my system. And it did replace, but I was able to reproduce the bug, right after that, with Squirrel SQL, which I chose to test with.

I'm using Unity 2D and it seems to fix the problem except that there is no longer a maximize button on my debugging console window... :(

I typed:
gtk-window-decorator --replace
and that solved it for me.

This way I use another window-decorator, no longer the unity-window-decorator.

How do I switch back to unity 3D so I can try replacing the window decorator?

Sorry, I misspoke in my previous comment. I posted an ltrace and a backtrace in bug #776312.

Is there any way we can get the priority increased on this bug?

The "gtk-window-decorator --replace" works for me too.
How can it be saved for follow-up logins?

This is super annoying and actually debilitating as I am a java developer and it makes it so that I can't even use the mouse or keyboard correctly in all of my windows when it occurs. Super frustrating. I just tried the "compbiz --replace" command and it has worked for me. I hope, like @ppareit it does not return until a reboot. We shall see.

UPDATE: Alas the "compbiz --replace" fix is only temporary. I am forced to run it many times an hour! Please fix this bug. Please?

@Ken Southerland - Is using openJDK an option? That is the current work-around which is working for me.

Use the workaround proposed by Ruth Alkema, using gtk-window-decorator instead compiz:

gtk-window-decorator --replace

It worked for me

Unfortunately, OpenJDK contains bugs in the 2D renderer that render it unusable.

I'm seeing the same problem with Java-based software (MATLAB and COMSOL). I'm going to try replacing the unity-window-decorator with gtk-window-decorator and see if it fixes the problem (until unity-window-decorator can get fixed).

Seems to be fixed by

java -version
java version "1.6.0_24"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_24-b07)
Java HotSpot(TM) Server VM (build 19.1-b02, mixed mode)

installed today

Start-Date: 2011-06-19 17:20:12
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End-Date: 2011-06-19 17:21:15

@lrkwz: I reported the issue against sun java version 24, so I would not be so sure about what you reported here.

Really big problem. Please Fix it.

Also have 1.6 update 24 and used it when repoted the bug (as a duplicate). I think that's not the path to follow

Also have the same bug using SOAP-UI - huge problem for my development work, please fix.

I would never tell anyone they "must" fix a bug - but I would strongly suggest that Ubuntu prominently indicate on the Natty download pages that it currently doesn't work very well with Java. Then I'd take the notice down if/when the bug is ever fixed.

That's just helping to save people time by letting them know when to avoid Natty. I think being a good neighbor in this way could be done in minutes, and I'm sure it would be much appreciated.

It will be fixed as soon as I get back from my exam leave :) I've
finally found a way to reliably reproduce this, so I can start working
on it accurately now.

On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 8:50 PM, oded bahar <email address hidden> wrote:
> Also have the same bug using SOAP-UI - huge problem for my development
> work, please fix.
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This bug is a race condition. It affects different applications on
different systems. It's not a blanket thing that we can say "it
doesn't work with all java applications" because that's not true.

On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 8:53 PM, david wood <email address hidden> wrote:
> I would never tell anyone they "must" fix a bug - but I would strongly
> suggest that Ubuntu prominently indicate on the Natty download pages
> that it currently doesn't work very well with Java. Then I'd take the
> notice down if/when the bug is ever fixed.
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> That's just helping to save people time by letting them know when to
> avoid Natty. I think being a good neighbor in this way could be done in
> minutes, and I'm sure it would be much appreciated.
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I tried the advice of mazurkin: I cleared up all options in "Effects" section of CompizConfig Setting Manager - except "Windows Decoration" options. Then I entered "/usr/bin/gtk-window-decorator" in the "Command" field of the "Windows Decoration" option. When rebooted my computer. I haven't noticed this bug for two last days.

Unfortunately I am still seeing the issue when following the advice with the Java applications Freeplane and IntelliJ IDEA.

Sam, thank you for the updates. If there's any way we can help - further diagnostics, troubleshooting, testing, etc. - please let us know.

I've got a fix for one case of this happening, where the client sets the WM_TRANSIENT_FOR hint before compiz has a chance to set an input frame. I know there are other cases too, so if you keep getting this crash after the next SRU, please let me know.

I will attach a testcase which shows this happening later. For now, one can use DeskZilla, opening it should reproduce the crash and this branch will fix that case

Can't link this branch for some reason, but see

lp:~unity-team/unity-window-decorator/unity-window-decorator.fix_727143

testcase at

lp:~smspillaz/+junk/uwdtest

running the testcase will reproduce the bug on the old version.

This bug was fixed in the package compiz - 1:0.9.4+bzr20110606-0ubuntu4

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compiz (1:0.9.4+bzr20110606-0ubuntu4) oneiric; urgency=low

  * debian/patches/00_bzr_fix_727143.patch:
    - Fix unity-window-decorator crashes with SIGSEGV when closing Java
      windows (LP: #727143)
 -- Didier Roche <email address hidden> Fri, 24 Jun 2011 10:46:01 +0200

So once the fix is confirmed to work on oneiric it will be backport for a natty stable update

the testcase doesn't trigger the bug for me but running deskzilla does and I can confirm that the oneiric update fixes the issue

Accepted compiz into natty-proposed, the package will build now and be available in a few hours. Please test and give feedback here. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Thank you in advance!

I've tested the fix and it seems that it works, I couldn't reproduce the bug so far.

Same here - fix appears successful.

I can reproduce this bug with every Java version (build in release 1.6.0_22 and my own installation 1.6.0_26.
I use the 64bit-versions.

Hi

just to add my name to the list of people suffering this Bug.
it happens when running Unity (Ubuntu Default 11.04) or the 'Gnome Classic'

it happen when using JAVA applications (netbeans, eclipse,... )

[code]
11436.227652] unity-window-de[3913]: segfault at 318 ip 0000000000415d6f sp 00007fffcf076660 error 6 in unity-window-decorator[400000+1b000]
[/code]

thanks

Hi,

I've installed the compiz fix 4 days ago. Since then I have no problems. I use ubuntu11.04, unity, sun-java, inelliJ idea, rubymine, dbviz and personalbrain. I had heavy problems with all instaled java apps before, now everything is all right.

Regards

Frank

After 4 days of heavy use w/ the new compiz build in -proposed, I can report this problem still appears completely cured, with no negative side effects.

This bug was fixed in the package compiz - 1:0.9.4+bzr20110606-0ubuntu1~natty2

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compiz (1:0.9.4+bzr20110606-0ubuntu1~natty2) natty-proposed; urgency=low

  * debian/patches/00_bzr_fix_727143.patch:
    - Fix unity-window-decorator crashes with SIGSEGV when closing Java
      windows (LP: #727143)
 -- Didier Roche <email address hidden> Fri, 24 Jun 2011 10:52:47 +0200

Sweet!!! Thanks for fixing this one -- it was a downer to my Unity experience.

Yes!! Thank you, thank you, thank you! This was driving me batty and almost had me longing for Windoze. Yes it was that bad. I was running "compiz --replace" every 10 minutes basically and it would quickly lead to having to reboot the machine as it would hang and I was having to do this a few times a day. I'm not kidding.

Thanks for the fix, any word on when it will hit the natty repositories?

On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 9:36 AM, Ken Southerland
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> Yes!! Thank you, thank you, thank you! This was driving me batty and
> almost had me longing for Windoze. Yes it was that bad. I was running
> "compiz --replace" every 10 minutes basically and it would quickly lead
> to having to reboot the machine as it would hang and I was having to do
> this a few times a day. I'm not kidding.
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@dsn0wman If you haven't already updated your Natty system, just do it.

@Claudiu - This is my every day work machine so I don't think I'll be
putting any alpha releases on it. I am just wondering if the fix has moved
from proposed to the stable natty packages.

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> @dsn0wman If you haven't already updated your Natty system, just do it.
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@dsn0wman I only have stable updates checked (proposed not checked), so it was the stable package.

I just hit this bug with the latest compiz update on Natty. It happened while closing the audio conference window in a webex application. I will see if I can reliably reproduce it and post the results here.

i have the same problem right now (ubuntu 11.04 updated up to 16 september)

I can trigger this like the OP with Java.

After the most recent patch (a few days ago) it happens always and the old fix won't work:

hardhat:~> gtk-window-decorator
Xlib: extension "RANDR" missing on display ":0.0".
gtk-window-decorator: Screen 0 on display ":0.0" already has a decoration manager; try using the --replace option to replace the current decoration manager.
hardhat:~> gtk-window-decorator --replace
Xlib: extension "RANDR" missing on display ":0.0".
(hang)

I still get the same problem, with JAVA i particular, but also without, sometimes (although less)
Ubuntu 11.10

Have the same problem in Ubuntu 12.04 + Sun (Oracle) JDK 1.6.0_32

Yup. Something similar is back. Confirmed with Canonical packaged IcedTea 7
as well. Several crash reports sent back.

It doesn't express quite the same way. For instance, a modal dialog used to
reliably trigger it. Now, window creation in general just seems risky.
On May 14, 2012 6:31 AM, "Paco Avila" <email address hidden> wrote:

> Have the same problem in Ubuntu 12.04 + Sun (Oracle) JDK 1.6.0_32
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I have been using the open JDK, and it works well if thats an option for
you.

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> Have the same problem in Ubuntu 12.04 + Sun (Oracle) JDK 1.6.0_32
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Just to be clear, all the crash reports I have originated occurred while using the OpenJDK (IcedTea).

natty has seen the end of its life and is no longer receiving any updates. Marking the natty task for this ticket as "Won't Fix".

oneiric has seen the end of its life and is no longer receiving any updates. Marking the oneiric task for this ticket as "Won't Fix".