cinnamon crashed with SIGSEGV in cogl_texture_set_region_fro

[Kilarin]

I just upgraded from Ubuntu 11.10 to 12.04. As soon as I upgraded, the first thing I noticed was my cinnamon UI option was gone from the login menu. So I logged in to xubuntu and installed cinnamon again:

I reboot and choose cinnamon from the login screen.

BUT, I just get the desktop, with no menu bars at all. I have to use ctrl-alt-backspace to get back to the login screen and log back in to xubuntu gui.

And there I find I've got an ubuntu crash report. I've repeated this multiple times, cinnamon always appears without the menu bars and I get a crash report as soon as I go back into another gui. This is what I thought might be important info from the crash report. (The Ubuntu Crash report, for reasons quite beyond my comprehension, will not allow you to copy it's content, so I had to type this by hand, there may be typos):

ExecutablePath:
/usr/bin/cinnamon

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Package:
cinnamon 1.4.0-2ubuntu1~precise1[origin:LP-PPA-gwendal-lebihan-dev-cinnamon-stable]

Title:
cinnamon crashed with SIGSEGV in cogl_texture_set_region_from_bitmap_EXP()

ApportVersion:
1.0.1-0ubuntu7

Architecture:
i386

DistroRelease:
Ubuntu 12.04

NonfreeKernalModules:
nvidia

ProcEnviron:
Path-(custom, user)
Lang=en_US.UTF-8
Shell=/bin/bash

SegvAnalysis:
Segfault happened at: 0x4dec1f4<cogl_texture_set_region_from_bitmap_EXP+52>:  mov  0x2c(%edx),%esi
PC(0x04dec1f4) ok
source"0x2c(%edx)"(0x0000002c) not located in a known VMA region (needed readable region)!
destination"%esi" ok

SegvReason:
reading NULL VMA

Signal:
11

StacktraceTop
cogl_texture_set_region_from_bitmap_EXP() from /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libcogl.so.9
cogl_texture_set_region() from /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libcogl.so.9
?? ()from /usr/lib/i386-linux-gn/libcogl.so.9



Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[zerozero]

at this moment the stable ppa is still not compatible with precise; you may try the nightly, see here
http://askubuntu.com/questions/94201/how-do-i-install-the-cinnamon-desktop

[Kilarin]

at this moment the stable ppa is still not compatible with precise; you may try the nightly, see here

I tried:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gwendal-lebihan-dev/cinnamon-nightly
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install cinnamon

And still no menu bars in cinnamon, but no crash message either.

Oh well, I'll just use xubuntu for a while, but I miss cinnamon.

thanks for the help!

[Kilarin]

hello folks,

Sorry for reviving such an old thread, but I've still got the exact same problem. I had hoped that when Cinnamon went the 1.6 I could start using it again. But if I boot into cinnamon I get the desktop with no menus. And when I boot back into Ubuntu I have a crash report that looks like this:

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ExecutablePath
  /usr/bin/cinnamon
Package
  cinnamon 1.6.0-20120924044005-precise [origin: LP-PPA-gwendal-lebihan-dev-cinnamon-nightly]
Title
  cinnamon crashed with SIGSEGV in cogl_texture_set_region_from_bitmap_EXP()
ApportVersion
  2.0.1-0ubuntu13
Architecture
  i386   
DistroRelease
  Ubuntu 12.04
NonfreeKernalModules
  nvidia     
SegvReason
  reading NULL VMA   
   

Any idea what could be causing this problem? I would REALLY like to switch to cinnamon!

[Kilarin]

Is there any other information I could supply? Like I said, I would really like to be using cinnamon, but I can't get past this error.

[Kilarin]

I think my problem may be related to this Ubuntu bug:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+sour ... bug/964275

gnome-shell crashed with SIGSEGV in cogl_texture_set_region_from_bitmap_EXP()

just I'm dying in cinnamon instead of gnome-shell. Looks like some kind of nvidia problem?