No panels, launcher, etc visible on desktop

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Those are the symptoms of bug 1039155, which was marked fixed by an update in Quantal today. Update and try it.

compiz (1:0.9.8.4-0ubuntu2) quantal; urgency=low

  • debian/patches/unity_support_test.patch:

    • force llvmpipe in the unity profile if we are in the grey zone, meaning: the card and drivers have opengl support, however, it doesn't met unity requirements (opengl < 1.4, no vertex shaders support…). Thanks duflu (LP: #1039155)

      Note that we already discourage them to upgrade from precise to quantal with a warning before the upgrade, however let's get a slow ui rather than none on the iso as well.

    -- Didier Roche Tue, 09 Oct 2012 15:26:52 +0200

Update: the user who filed that bug has written: "Re-opening the bug as it is not fixed for me." So this looks up in the air for now.

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  • RARain
    RARain over 1 year

    My first time trying to use Ubuntu. I clean installed the Ubuntu 12.10-beta2 on an old Dell Dimension 4600 today. Install seemed to go fine, but after restarting and entering the requested passwords I'm taken to a purple screen with no panels, launchers or anything else--just a purple screen. I'm able to access the terminal from the screen with ctrl-alt-t, but I'm not sure at this point in my Linux training how to search for errors. Also have no Internet connection (I'm typing this on a mac), but I'll have to deal with that later. Would appreciate any suggestions.

    • RARain
      RARain over 11 years
      I ran the tail -f /var/log/syslog command at kmassada's suggestion and it seems to be riddled with hundreds of errors. I installed from a usb flash drive, not sure if that's part of the problem. Would you suggest reinstalling the beta version or perhaps try a different one? Thanks again!
  • RARain
    RARain over 11 years
    Seems to be riddled with errors. I installed from a usb drive, don't know if that was an issue or not. May be too much info, but here's what I got after running the first command:
  • Nivedita
    Nivedita over 11 years
    I don't get to see your code, if it is pastie.org, just comment with the ID at the end of url.
  • RARain
    RARain over 11 years
  • Nivedita
    Nivedita over 11 years
    hmm doesn't look familiar.. must be usb you still have plugged in, did you try the packages upgrade? and reboot?
  • RARain
    RARain over 11 years
    Yes, but I can't connect to the internet yet and it looked like it needed a connection to download some of the upgrades. I may be better off uninstalling it and trying over. Do you think I should go with the beta version again?
  • Nivedita
    Nivedita over 11 years
    Its worth the try. It doesn't take too long for a reinstall. this time establish the connection at install so you can get the latest packages
  • valse-triste
    valse-triste over 11 years
    Sure. :) If you find out, let us know whether the update helped much!