Starting a couple of months ago, I began having issues in Firefox related to something called "r300_dri.so". I disabled Webgl on the "about:config" page in Firefox and that stopped the crashing. However, as of around 2 weeks ago (just after disabling WebGL), whenever I log in to Ubuntu, I now just see my desktop background, with flashing icons, Unity launcher and top bar. I can right-click to get to a terminal. I think Compiz is crashing (logs posted below). The Firefox issue and the desktop issue may be completely unrelated, but I have a hunch that there's a common cause.
System
- Ubuntu 16.04 64-bit
- AMD Turion 64
- 4 GB RAM
- PATA IDE HDD
- Graphics: VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] RS482M [Mobility Radeon Xpress 200]
Things I have Tried
- Upgrading all packages to latest releases
- The process described in "UPDATE APRIL" and "UPDATE March 2018" here: https://askubuntu.com/questions/9925...mpiz-segfaults
- Reinstalling libglib2.0-0
None of the above solved the issue.
I have read lots of posts on the issue, but lots sound like they're different to what I'm experiencing. Nevertheless, apologies if I've missed an obvious avenue before seeking help here!
Paste from /var/log/syslog (starting from first instance of the segfault):
Jul 27 18:30:19 HAPPY kernel: [ 669.687946] compiz[2543]: segfault at 738 ip 00007f813c01c2c9 sp 00007fff02f61ea0 error 4
Jul 27 18:30:20 HAPPY gnome-session[2156]: (unity-fallback-mount-helper:2488): GLib-GIO-CRITICAL **: g_dbus_proxy_call_finish_internal: assertion 'G_IS_DBUS_PROXY (proxy)' failed
Jul 27 18:30:20 HAPPY gnome-session[2156]: (unity-fallback-mount-helper:2488): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_variant_get_va: assertion 'value != NULL' failed
Jul 27 18:30:20 HAPPY gnome-session[2156]: (unity-fallback-mount-helper:2488): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_variant_unref: assertion 'value != NULL' failed
Jul 27 18:30:20 HAPPY gnome-session[2156]: ** (unity-fallback-mount-helper:2488): WARNING **: Can't call IsLocked() on the Unity.Session object: Cannot invoke method; proxy is for a well-known name without an owner and proxy was constructed with the G_DBUS_PROXY_FLAGS_DO_NOT_AUTO_START flag
Jul 27 18:30:21 HAPPY org.gnome.zeitgeist.Engine[2019]: ** (zeitgeist-datahub:2766): WARNING **: zeitgeist-datahub.vala:229: Unable to get name "org.gnome.zeitgeist.datahub" on the bus!
Jul 27 18:30:23 HAPPY kernel: [ 673.386286] compiz[2740]: segfault at 328 ip 00007fbb600272c9 sp 00007ffc75bf8da0 error 4
Jul 27 18:30:23 HAPPY gnome-session[2156]: ** (unity-fallback-mount-helper:2488): WARNING **: Can't call IsLocked() on the Unity.Session object: Cannot invoke method; proxy is for a well-known name without an owner and proxy was constructed with the G_DBUS_PROXY_FLAGS_DO_NOT_AUTO_START flag
Paste from /var/crash/_usr_bin_compiz.1000.crash
ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: amd64
CrashCounter: 1
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Thu Jul 26 22:13:47 2018
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/compiz
<snip>
SegvAnalysis:
Segfault happened at: 0x7f19500522c9: movdqu (%r8,%rbx,1),%xmm9
PC (0x7f19500522c9) ok
source "(%r8,%rbx,1)" (0x00000320) not located in a known VMA region (needed readable region)!
destination "%xmm9" ok
SegvReason: reading NULL VMA
SourcePackage: compiz
Stacktrace:
#0 0x00007f19500522c9 in ?? ()
No symbol table info available.
#1 0x0000000000000000 in ?? ()
No symbol table info available.
StacktraceTop:
?? ()
?? ()
Tags: xenial xenial ubuntu compiz-0.9
ThreadStacktrace:
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Thread 6 (Thread 0x7f19297bc700 (LWP 2252)):
#0 syscall () at ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/x86_64/syscall.S:38
No locals.
#1 0x00007f1956c7dcfa in g_cond_wait_until () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
No symbol table info available.
#2 0x00007f1956c0d999 in ?? () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
No symbol table info available.
#3 0x00007f1956c0dfbb in g_async_queue_timeout_pop () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
No symbol table info available.
#4 0x00007f1956c6060a in ?? () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
No symbol table info available.
#5 0x00007f1956c5fbb5 in ?? () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
No symbol table info available.
#6 0x00007f19565ca6ba in start_thread (arg=0x7f19297bc700) at pthread_create.c:333
__res = <optimised out>
pd = 0x7f19297bc700
now = <optimised out>
unwind_buf = {cancel_jmp_buf = {{jmp_buf = {139746046887680, 2698625152003350009, 0, 140732259479199, 139746046888384, 139746491836624, -2647795865437594119, -2647591021518381575}, mask_was_saved = 0}}, priv = {pad = {0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0}, data = {prev = 0x0, cleanup = 0x0, canceltype = 0}}}
not_first_call = <optimised out>
pagesize_m1 = <optimised out>
sp = <optimised out>
freesize = <optimised out>
__PRETTY_FUNCTION__ = "start_thread"
#7 0x00007f195841641d in clone () at ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/x86_64/clone.S:109
No locals.
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Thread 5 (Thread 0x7f1942859700 (LWP 2244)):
#0 pthread_cond_wait@@GLIBC_2.3.2 () at ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/x86_64/pthread_cond_wait.S:185
No locals.
#1 0x00007f194343670b in ?? () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/r300_dri.so
No symbol table info available.
#2 0x00007f1943436427 in ?? () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/r300_dri.so
No symbol table info available.
#3 0x00007f19565ca6ba in start_thread (arg=0x7f1942859700) at pthread_create.c:333
__res = <optimised out>
pd = 0x7f1942859700
now = <optimised out>
unwind_buf = {cancel_jmp_buf = {{jmp_buf = {139746466961152, 2698625152003350009, 0, 140732259485039, 139746466961856, 0, -2647566498614731271, -2647591021518381575}, mask_was_saved = 0}}, priv = {pad = {0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0}, data = {prev = 0x0, cleanup = 0x0, canceltype = 0}}}
not_first_call = <optimised out>
pagesize_m1 = <optimised out>
sp = <optimised out>
freesize = <optimised out>
The report carries on in a similar fashion: lots of the same errors.
I am currently booting off a live USB (Unetbootin) of 16.04 and it seems to be working absolutely fine. The Ubuntu .iso image was downloaded some months ago, though, before I had any of these problems.
