running in virtualbox, screen flickers and doesn't redraw, compbiz crashed

Bug #1038246 reported by Karl J. Smith
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Bug Description

The new version of unity isn't working very well under virtualbox. he screen is flickering, redraws aren't happening unless you move the mouse over buttons, and compbiz is crashing.

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
Package: compiz-core 1:0.9.8+bzr3249-0ubuntu4
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-10.10-generic 3.5.1
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-10-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.4-0ubuntu8
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri Aug 17 12:52:18 2012
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/compiz
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Alpha amd64 (20120724.2)
ProcCmdline: compiz
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SegvAnalysis:
 Segfault happened at: 0x7fd2aa23cfae: movaps %xmm1,-0x10(%rdi)
 PC (0x7fd2aa23cfae) ok
 source "%xmm1" ok
 destination "-0x10(%rdi)" (0x10926ee10) not located in a known VMA region (needed writable region)!
SegvReason: writing unknown VMA
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: compiz
StacktraceTop:
 ?? () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6
 ?? () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/swrast_dri.so
 ?? () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/swrast_dri.so
 TfpTexture::enable(GLTexture::Filter) () from /usr/lib/compiz/libopengl.so
 GLWindow::glDrawTexture(GLTexture*, GLFragment::Attrib&, unsigned int) () from /usr/lib/compiz/libopengl.so
Title: compiz crashed with SIGSEGV in TfpTexture::enable()
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups: adm cdrom dip lpadmin plugdev sambashare sudo

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Karl J. Smith (karl-karl) wrote :
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Apport retracing service (apport) wrote : This bug is a duplicate

Thank you for taking the time to report this crash and helping to make this software better. This particular crash has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug #1019834, so is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Please continue to report any other bugs you may find.

visibility: private → public
tags: removed: need-amd64-retrace
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Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt) wrote :

The flickering is bug 1021104.

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