Comment 13 for bug 115283

Well the thing is after a few more upgrades, I couldn't start compiz at all, but then i read a post at ubuntuforums where a user had the same problem, he made a new "clean" user and with that he could get compiz running, this works for me on my x60s (intel card), but on two other laptops I've tried it (an older CL56 (ati card) and a brand new T61 (nvidia card)) making a new user and running "compiz --replace -c emerald &" just crashes in the same way as with the original user.

the error I get when compiz crashes is:

petter@*****:~$ compiz --replace -c emerald &
[1] 29727
petter@*****:~$ Checking for Xgl: not present.
Checking for texture_from_pixmap: not present.
Trying again with indirect rendering:
Checking for texture_from_pixmap: present.
Checking for non power of two support: present.
Checking for Composite extension: present.
Checking for nVidia: not present.
Checking for Xgl: not present.
Starting gtk-window-decorator
/usr/bin/compiz.real (core) - Warn: Unknown option '-c'

petter@*****:~$ /usr/bin/compiz.real (core) - Error: Couldn't load plugin 'emerald'

I think I saw something like this reported as another bug already, so I will lookup that again instead of going more o.t. here.

back on topic: as of yet I haven't seen the bug described in this thread when running compiz with the second user on my x60s, so I really can't give you anymore details than in my earlier posts on how to reproduce the "freeze"...