I encounter this problem on my desktop pc that has just been freshly installed with Ubuntu 14.04 on a regular basis. No changes or tweaks to Unity. The problem started right after install. I have two laptops running Ubuntu with Unity not having this problem.
The crash is triggered when you open multiple windows of the same application and click on the application icon in the launcher bar. The first time I do this compiz can recover itself and I get a Apport notification. If I accidentally trigger the bug a second time it completely crashes, does not recover and launcher, window borders as well as menubar are gone. Using Alt+Tab to switch the window works without problems. ** Changed in: unity Status: New => Confirmed ** Tags added: amd64 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to unity in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1293242 Title: compiz crashed with SIGSEGV in ScaleScreen::getWindows() Status in Unity: Confirmed Status in “unity” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Unity se cerró luego de utilizar la utilidad ''Unity Tweak Tool'' especificamente al activar la opción ''Despliegue de ventanas'' Sistema actualizado, he debido reiniciar el equipo. ProblemType: Crash DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04 Package: unity 7.1.2+14.04.20140313-0ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-17.37-generic 3.13.6 Uname: Linux 3.13.0-17-generic i686 ApportVersion: 2.13.3-0ubuntu1 Architecture: i386 CurrentDesktop: Unity Date: Sun Mar 16 17:58:29 2014 ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/compiz InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-02-27 (17 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Alpha i386 (20140224) ProcCmdline: compiz SegvAnalysis: Segfault happened at: 0xb177dc54 <_ZNK11ScaleScreen10getWindowsEv+4>: mov 0x24(%eax),%eax PC (0xb177dc54) ok source "0x24(%eax)" (0x00000024) not located in a known VMA region (needed readable region)! destination "%eax" ok SegvReason: reading NULL VMA Signal: 11 SourcePackage: unity StacktraceTop: ScaleScreen::getWindows() const () from /usr/lib/compiz/libscale.so unity::UnityScreen::OnInitiateSpread() () from /usr/lib/compiz/libunityshell.so sigc::internal::slot_call0<sigc::bound_mem_functor0<void, unity::UnityScreen>, void>::call_it(sigc::internal::slot_rep*) () from /usr/lib/compiz/libunityshell.so sigc::internal::signal_emit0<void, sigc::nil>::emit(sigc::internal::signal_impl*) () from /usr/lib/compiz/libunityshell.so unity::PluginAdapter::OnScreenGrabbed() () from /usr/lib/compiz/libunityshell.so Title: compiz crashed with SIGSEGV in ScaleScreen::getWindows() UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) UserGroups: adm cdrom dip lpadmin plugdev sambashare sudo To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/unity/+bug/1293242/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp