fwiw, after the valgrind experiment I had to include another line item to my workaround... normally removing .compiz and .cache/compiz and restarting lightdm works. I added the compiz.desktop to keep it from picking up the test script I was using.
#!/bin/sh sudo service lightdm stop rm -rf /home/joey/.compiz* rm -rf /home/joey/.cache/.compiz* rm -rf /home/joey/.config/gnome-session/saved-session/compiz.desktop sudo service lightdm start -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/750386 Title: compiz crashed with SIGABRT in raise() from abort() from __libc_message() from malloc_printerr() from _int_free() To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/unity/+bug/750386/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
