Blender 2.66 compositor crash

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I’m using Blender 2.66.a+svn56462
Opening the compositor window, crashing the whole blender, regardless startup file or anyother blend file. Compositor opens, and within 4-5 seconds, blender crashes itself. If someone is fast enough to start working in compositor (check mark nodes, backdrops), the blender freezes with high CPU usage!

I’m on Ubuntu 12.04.
I removed the ppa and downgraded to Blender 2.62. But Same problem. I am using Blender on Ubuntu since it was 2.62 and it’s the first time it is crashing.

Running from terminal…

blender
connect failed: No such file or directory
error reading screen... file corrupt
Read new prefs: /home/escapednight/.config/blender/2.66/config/userpref.blend
Writing: /tmp/blender.crash.txt
Segmentation fault (core dumped)

Crash text

# Blender 2.66 (sub 6), Revision: 56462


# backtrace
/usr/lib/blender/blender() [0x8741d0f]
[0xb7740400]
/usr/lib/blender/blender(scredge_is_horizontal+0xa) [0x89eb74a]
/usr/lib/blender/blender(screen_find_active_scredge+0xa6) [0x89eb806]
/usr/lib/blender/blender(ED_screen_set_subwinactive+0x2b9) [0x89ed959]
/usr/lib/blender/blender(wm_event_do_handlers+0x680) [0x874ae50]
/usr/lib/blender/blender(WM_main+0x28) [0x87432e8]
/usr/lib/blender/blender(main+0x1008) [0x8700368]
/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xf3) [0xb50904d3]
/usr/lib/blender/blender() [0x8740429]
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Hi, Sinuxsteve on the other thread has the same problem but I cant reproduce it on Opensuse.
Please make bugreport in tracker, you can reach tracker from Help menu.
You need a account but it is very important to report because of release of 2.67 in a few days.
Try the latest build from buildbot > http://builder.blender.org/download/

Cheers, mib.

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Okay I reported the bug here. http://projects.blender.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=35244&group_id=9&atid=498 andI’m suggested this "There was a bug in startup.blend in blender 2.67-RC which lead to corrupted compositor screen in 32bit builds. It was recently fixed, so please try using fresh build from http://builder.blender.org/download/ and see if it works fine for you.

If you’ve got crashes with your startup.blend, you’ll need to re-save it using fresh build from buildbot, or re-create it from scratch by loading factory settings and making all the changes you need."

So I removed every last trace of installed blender from my system, deleted userpreference and startup file in ~/.config/blender 2.66 and I downloaded the recent build blender-2.66-r56521-linux-glibc211-i686. and ran directly from terminal

./blender

. it brought the blender and I tried to open the project/blend file (for better understanding the name was water.blend) I was lastly working on. It opened and again there was no compositing option. But other blend files that I made in 2.65 or 2.64 worked perfectly and showed up the compositing option. I dont understand what’s going on.

cd blender-2.66-r56521-linux-glibc211-i686
./blender
libjack.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
connect failed: No such file or directory
found bundled python: /home/escapednight/blender/2.66/python
read blend: /home/escapednight/Pictures/rainy window.blend
Error reading Screen Compositing... removing it.
read blend: /home/escapednight/Pictures/interior.blend (previous project file made in 2.65 - had no problem)
Saved session recovery to '/tmp/quit.blend'


Blender quit
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Okay I appended everything from that blend file into newly built blender and everything is fine.
Now I will just wait for the ppa to be updated.