Public bug reported: UI crash and restart the session after a random failure (there's not a specific flow to reproduce it). This occurs very often and my system is updated.
--- $ lsb_release -rd Description: Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS Release: 14.04 $ apt-cache policy unity-settings-daemon unity-settings-daemon: Instalados: 14.04.0+14.04.20140606-0ubuntu3 Candidato: 14.04.0+14.04.20140606-0ubuntu3 Tabla de versión: *** 14.04.0+14.04.20140606-0ubuntu3 0 500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-updates/main amd64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status 14.04.0+14.04.20140414-0ubuntu1 0 500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/main amd64 Packages $ apt-cache policy compiz compiz: Instalados: 1:0.9.11.3+14.04.20150313-0ubuntu1 Candidato: 1:0.9.11.3+14.04.20150313-0ubuntu1 Tabla de versión: *** 1:0.9.11.3+14.04.20150313-0ubuntu1 0 500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-updates/main amd64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status 1:0.9.11+14.04.20140409-0ubuntu1 0 500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/main amd64 Packages --- $ dmesg | grep segfault [84540.722142] unity-settings-[3448]: segfault at 1000018 ip 00007f25ccea38f3 sp 00007fffa1131530 error 4 in libc-2.19.so[7f25cce25000+1bb000] [84544.455503] compiz[3669]: segfault at 0 ip (null) sp 00007fffc4f606b8 error 14 in compiz[400000+3000] --- More detailed log (last events before crash): Aug 15 21:04:01 Paula CRON[11626]: (CRON) info (No MTA installed, discarding output) Aug 15 21:04:16 Paula CRON[11625]: (CRON) info (No MTA installed, discarding output) Aug 15 21:04:31 Paula CRON[11624]: (CRON) info (No MTA installed, discarding output) Aug 15 21:04:45 Paula kernel: [84540.722142] unity-settings-[3448]: segfault at 1000018 ip 00007f25ccea38f3 sp 00007fffa1131530 error 4 in libc-2.19.so[7f25cce25000+1bb000] Aug 15 21:04:46 Paula CRON[11623]: (CRON) info (No MTA installed, discarding output) Aug 15 21:04:48 Paula colord: device removed: xrandr-AU Optronics Aug 15 21:04:48 Paula colord: device removed: xrandr-Samsung Electric Company-SyncMaster-H9NPB05487 Aug 15 21:04:48 Paula colord: Profile removed: icc-6cc7419f8665df89bfcabf46ad1fcd43 Aug 15 21:04:48 Paula colord: Profile removed: icc-d3b4712779b6c1c4a2b5bae88a57a86f Aug 15 21:04:48 Paula dbus[489]: [system] Activating service name='org.freedesktop.systemd1' (using servicehelper) Aug 15 21:04:48 Paula dbus[489]: [system] Successfully activated service 'org.freedesktop.systemd1' Aug 15 21:04:48 Paula kernel: [84544.455503] compiz[3669]: segfault at 0 ip (null) sp 00007fffc4f606b8 error 14 in compiz[400000+3000] Aug 15 21:04:49 Paula dbus[489]: [system] Activating service name='org.freedesktop.locale1' (using servicehelper) Aug 15 21:04:49 Paula dbus[489]: [system] Successfully activated service 'org.freedesktop.locale1' Aug 15 21:04:49 Paula colord: Device added: xrandr-AU Optronics Aug 15 21:04:49 Paula colord: Device added: xrandr-Samsung Electric Company-SyncMaster-H9NPB05487 Aug 15 21:04:49 Paula colord: Automatic metadata add icc-6cc7419f8665df89bfcabf46ad1fcd43 to xrandr-Samsung Electric Company-SyncMaster-H9NPB05487 Aug 15 21:04:49 Paula colord: Profile added: icc-6cc7419f8665df89bfcabf46ad1fcd43 Aug 15 21:04:49 Paula colord: Automatic metadata add icc-d3b4712779b6c1c4a2b5bae88a57a86f to xrandr-AU Optronics Aug 15 21:04:49 Paula colord: Profile added: icc-d3b4712779b6c1c4a2b5bae88a57a86f Aug 15 21:05:04 Paula gnome-session[3470]: WARNING: Application 'compiz.desktop' killed by signal 11 Aug 15 21:05:04 Paula gnome-session[3470]: WARNING: App 'compiz.desktop' respawning too quickly Aug 15 21:05:04 Paula gnome-session[3470]: CRITICAL: We failed, but the fail whale is dead. Sorry.... Aug 15 21:05:04 Paula bluetoothd[537]: Endpoint unregistered: sender=:1.70 path=/MediaEndpoint/HFPAG Aug 15 21:05:04 Paula bluetoothd[537]: Endpoint unregistered: sender=:1.70 path=/MediaEndpoint/HFPHS Aug 15 21:05:04 Paula bluetoothd[537]: Endpoint unregistered: sender=:1.70 path=/MediaEndpoint/A2DPSource Aug 15 21:05:04 Paula bluetoothd[537]: Endpoint unregistered: sender=:1.70 path=/MediaEndpoint/A2DPSink Aug 15 21:05:04 Paula bluetoothd[537]: hci0: Remove UUID (0x0011) failed: Busy (0x0a) Aug 15 21:05:10 Paula colord: device removed: xrandr-AU Optronics Aug 15 21:05:10 Paula colord: device removed: xrandr-Samsung Electric Company-SyncMaster-H9NPB05487 Aug 15 21:05:10 Paula colord: Profile removed: icc-6cc7419f8665df89bfcabf46ad1fcd43 Aug 15 21:05:10 Paula colord: Profile removed: icc-d3b4712779b6c1c4a2b5bae88a57a86f Aug 15 21:05:15 Paula acpid: client 3141[0:0] has disconnected Aug 15 21:05:15 Paula acpid: client connected from 11836[0:0] Aug 15 21:05:15 Paula acpid: 1 client rule loaded Aug 15 21:05:15 Paula rtkit-daemon[1749]: Successfully made thread 11949 of process 11949 (n/a) owned by '112' high priority at nice level -11. Aug 15 21:05:15 Paula rtkit-daemon[1749]: Supervising 1 threads of 1 processes of 1 users. Aug 15 21:05:16 Paula rtkit-daemon[1749]: Successfully made thread 11960 of process 11949 (n/a) owned by '112' RT at priority 5. Aug 15 21:05:16 Paula rtkit-daemon[1749]: Supervising 2 threads of 1 processes of 1 users. Aug 15 21:05:16 Paula rtkit-daemon[1749]: Successfully made thread 11965 of process 11949 (n/a) owned by '112' RT at priority 5. Aug 15 21:05:16 Paula rtkit-daemon[1749]: Supervising 3 threads of 1 processes of 1 users. Aug 15 21:05:16 Paula rtkit-daemon[1749]: Successfully made thread 11966 of process 11949 (n/a) owned by '112' RT at priority 5. Aug 15 21:05:16 Paula rtkit-daemon[1749]: Supervising 4 threads of 1 processes of 1 users. Aug 15 21:05:16 Paula bluetoothd[537]: Endpoint registered: sender=:1.258 path=/MediaEndpoint/HFPAG Aug 15 21:05:16 Paula bluetoothd[537]: Endpoint registered: sender=:1.258 path=/MediaEndpoint/HFPHS Aug 15 21:05:16 Paula bluetoothd[537]: Endpoint registered: sender=:1.258 path=/MediaEndpoint/A2DPSource Aug 15 21:05:16 Paula bluetoothd[537]: Endpoint registered: sender=:1.258 path=/MediaEndpoint/A2DPSink Aug 15 21:05:16 Paula rtkit-daemon[1749]: Successfully made thread 11968 of process 11968 (n/a) owned by '112' high priority at nice level -11. Aug 15 21:05:16 Paula rtkit-daemon[1749]: Supervising 5 threads of 2 processes of 1 users. Aug 15 21:05:16 Paula pulseaudio[11968]: [pulseaudio] pid.c: Daemon already running. Aug 15 21:05:16 Paula dbus[489]: [system] Activating service name='org.freedesktop.systemd1' (using servicehelper) Aug 15 21:05:16 Paula dbus[489]: [system] Successfully activated service 'org.freedesktop.systemd1' Aug 15 21:05:16 Paula colord: Device added: xrandr-AU Optronics Aug 15 21:05:16 Paula colord: Device added: xrandr-Samsung Electric Company-SyncMaster-H9NPB05487 Aug 15 21:05:16 Paula colord: Device added: xrandr-Samsung Electric Company-SyncMaster-H9NPB05487 Aug 15 21:05:16 Paula colord: Automatic metadata add icc-6f57e78c3c0dc6ddc1a250eef3653364 to xrandr-Samsung Electric Company-SyncMaster-H9NPB05487 Aug 15 21:05:16 Paula colord: Profile added: icc-6f57e78c3c0dc6ddc1a250eef3653364 Aug 15 21:05:16 Paula colord: Automatic metadata add icc-fb7464057b8768eb8fedf80e63e12d9e to xrandr-AU Optronics Aug 15 21:05:16 Paula colord: Profile added: icc-fb7464057b8768eb8fedf80e63e12d9e Aug 15 21:05:16 Paula CRON[11713]: (CRON) info (No MTA installed, discarding output) Aug 15 21:05:19 Paula colord: device removed: xrandr-AU Optronics Aug 15 21:05:19 Paula colord: device removed: xrandr-Samsung Electric Company-SyncMaster-H9NPB05487 Aug 15 21:05:19 Paula colord: Profile removed: icc-6f57e78c3c0dc6ddc1a250eef3653364 Aug 15 21:05:19 Paula colord: Profile removed: icc-fb7464057b8768eb8fedf80e63e12d9e Aug 15 21:05:20 Paula lightdm: pam_ecryptfs: Skipping automatic eCryptfs mount Aug 15 21:05:20 Paula rtkit-daemon[1749]: Successfully made thread 12304 of process 12304 (n/a) owned by '1000' high priority at nice level -11. Aug 15 21:05:20 Paula rtkit-daemon[1749]: Supervising 5 threads of 2 processes of 2 users. Aug 15 21:05:20 Paula pulseaudio[12304]: [pulseaudio] pid.c: Stale PID file, overwriting. Aug 15 21:05:20 Paula rtkit-daemon[1749]: Successfully made thread 12331 of process 12304 (n/a) owned by '1000' RT at priority 5. Aug 15 21:05:20 Paula rtkit-daemon[1749]: Supervising 6 threads of 2 processes of 2 users. Aug 15 21:05:20 Paula rtkit-daemon[1749]: Successfully made thread 12343 of process 12304 (n/a) owned by '1000' RT at priority 5. Aug 15 21:05:20 Paula rtkit-daemon[1749]: Supervising 7 threads of 2 processes of 2 users. Aug 15 21:05:20 Paula rtkit-daemon[1749]: Successfully made thread 12346 of process 12304 (n/a) owned by '1000' RT at priority 5. Aug 15 21:05:20 Paula rtkit-daemon[1749]: Supervising 8 threads of 2 processes of 2 users. Aug 15 21:05:20 Paula bluetoothd[537]: Endpoint registered: sender=:1.285 path=/MediaEndpoint/HFPAG Aug 15 21:05:20 Paula bluetoothd[537]: Endpoint registered: sender=:1.285 path=/MediaEndpoint/HFPHS Aug 15 21:05:20 Paula bluetoothd[537]: Endpoint registered: sender=:1.285 path=/MediaEndpoint/A2DPSource Aug 15 21:05:20 Paula bluetoothd[537]: Endpoint registered: sender=:1.285 path=/MediaEndpoint/A2DPSink Aug 15 21:05:20 Paula colord: Device added: xrandr-AU Optronics Aug 15 21:05:20 Paula colord: Device added: xrandr-Samsung Electric Company-SyncMaster-H9NPB05487 Aug 15 21:05:21 Paula colord: Automatic metadata add icc-6cc7419f8665df89bfcabf46ad1fcd43 to xrandr-Samsung Electric Company-SyncMaster-H9NPB05487 Aug 15 21:05:21 Paula colord: Profile added: icc-6cc7419f8665df89bfcabf46ad1fcd43 Aug 15 21:05:21 Paula colord: Automatic metadata add icc-d3b4712779b6c1c4a2b5bae88a57a86f to xrandr-AU Optronics Aug 15 21:05:21 Paula colord: Profile added: icc-d3b4712779b6c1c4a2b5bae88a57a86f Aug 15 21:05:21 Paula nautilus: [N-A] Nautilus-Actions Tracker 3.2.3 initializing... Aug 15 21:05:21 Paula nautilus: [N-A] Nautilus-Actions Menu Extender 3.2.3 initializing... Aug 15 21:05:26 Paula dbus[489]: [system] Activating service name='org.freedesktop.hostname1' (using servicehelper) Aug 15 21:05:26 Paula dbus[489]: [system] Successfully activated service 'org.freedesktop.hostname1' Aug 15 21:05:26 Paula kernel: [84582.536483] systemd-hostnamed[12516]: Warning: nss-myhostname is not installed. Changing the local hostname might make it unresolveable. Please Aug 15 21:05:31 Paula CRON[11712]: (CRON) info (No MTA installed, discarding output) Aug 15 21:05:40 Paula bluetoothd[537]: Endpoint unregistered: sender=:1.258 path=/MediaEndpoint/HFPAG Aug 15 21:05:40 Paula bluetoothd[537]: Endpoint unregistered: sender=:1.258 path=/MediaEndpoint/HFPHS Aug 15 21:05:40 Paula bluetoothd[537]: Endpoint unregistered: sender=:1.258 path=/MediaEndpoint/A2DPSource Aug 15 21:05:40 Paula bluetoothd[537]: Endpoint unregistered: sender=:1.258 path=/MediaEndpoint/A2DPSink Aug 15 21:05:46 Paula CRON[11711]: (CRON) info (No MTA installed, discarding output) ** Affects: unity-settings-daemon (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: compiz segfault unity-settings-daemon -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1485277 Title: unity-settings / compiz segfault and ui crash To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity-settings-daemon/+bug/1485277/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs