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Unity broken after update

Bug #966011 reported by x on 2012-03-27

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #963633: Unity 5.8: Login to blank screen (all black or just wallpaper). Edit Remove

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	unity (Ubuntu)	New	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

After the updates on March 27th, the Unity Desktop is broken. Sometimes I get no desktop elements at all and all I can do is start a terminal with the keyboard shortcut, other times the Unity sidebar stays up all the time (on both monitors), taking up screen space. It's a big step back from a pretty good beta experience so far.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: unity 5.8.0-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-20.32-generic 3.2.12
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-20-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 1.95-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
CompizPlugins: [core,composite,opengl,compiztoolbox,decor,vpswitch,snap,mousepoll,resize,place,move,wall,grid,regex,imgpng,session,gnomecompat,animation,fade,unitymtgrabhandles,workarounds,scale,expo,ezoom,unityshell]
Date: Tue Mar 27 10:07:06 2012
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Beta amd64 (20120301)
ProcEnviron:
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: unity
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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x (anotheraccount) wrote on 2012-03-27:

Dependencies.txt Edit (6.8 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
GconfCompiz.txt Edit (36.9 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

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x (anotheraccount) wrote on 2012-03-27:

The sidebar problem is solved. The update reset all my Unity preferences...

I'm not sure if, with the default preferences, the sidebar is supposed to stay up even when you have full screen windows, though.

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Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt) wrote on 2012-03-27:

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 963633, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.