[Bug 909887] Re: compiz crashed with SIGSEGV (Xubuntu 11.10)

2012-01-03 Thread Matteo Italia
The debug symbol packages installed come all from the offical dbgsym repository and are as updated as it is, if they don't match the installed versions it's not my fault, and I wouldn't know how to remedy. Also, I don't think that any of those libraries are involved in some way in the crash,

[Bug 909887] Re: compiz crashed with SIGSEGV (Xubuntu 11.10)

2011-12-29 Thread Matteo Italia
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[Bug 909887] Re: compiz crashed with SIGSEGV (Xubuntu 11.10)

2011-12-29 Thread Matteo Italia
Again on the stack trace: I installed the -dbg/-dbgsym packets of every library about which the Compiz crash plugin log complained (no symbol found), but it didn't add any detail to the stack trace. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is

[Bug 909887] Re: compiz crashed with SIGSEGV (Xubuntu 11.10)

2011-12-29 Thread Matteo Italia
Further examination of the process map shows that the fault address (0x406fcee8) belongs to a portion of memory associated with the file /tmp/glNSpQ5n (deleted). I am inclined to think that this file belongs to the proprietary nVidia drivers: I heard several times that they need /tmp to be

[Bug 909887] Re: compiz crashed with SIGSEGV (Xubuntu 11.10)

2011-12-29 Thread Matteo Italia
Tested older nVidia drivers (version 173-updates), crash again. This time the memory region of the crash (almost the same) is associated with /dev/zero, go figure... One thing I forgot to mention: on this very machine I run without problems Linux Mint 11 with compiz enabled; thinking that maybe