Comment 7 for bug 106350

I can confirm this bug on a 32-bit system. I'm seeing this problem since my upgrade to feisty last Thursday (so most likely, this bug is feisty only). However, metacity doesn't always crash at shutdown. I've found a crash report from Friday (at 2.42 am), but the last time I've shut my laptop down was Friday around 22.30 pm, which implies that metacity didn't crash at 22.30pm.
My work around: try to click the terminal icon before it gets covered, and then execute gnome-wm from the terminal. This brings metacity back on - without the need to remove the .gnome2/session file.
I attached the crash report from Friday. If it can help, I will try to get my corrupted session file for metacity next time the crash happens (but I would need some directions on where to get it).