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gnome-session package

Ubuntu Alternate: Empty desktop after installation with 2D fallback

Bug #712630 reported by Jean-Baptiste Lallement
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This bug affects 2 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
gnome-session (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
High
Unassigned
Ubuntu ubuntu-11.04-beta-1

Bug Description

Binary package hint: gnome-session

ISO Testing: Ubuntu Alternate i386 20110201.2

1. Install Ubuntu Alternate on a VM
2. Reboot
3. Login
4. At the prompt "Your hardware doesn't support 3D" select Change Session

Result:
Empty desktop.
Nautilus is working because a right click on the desktop shows the contextual menu but no icons on the desktop, no panel
Metacity is also working

No evidence of a crash in any log file.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: gnome-session 2.32.1-0ubuntu13
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-1.28-generic 2.6.38-rc2
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-1-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Feb 3 18:25:45 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Alpha i386 (20110201.2)
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US:en
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 LC_MESSAGES=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gnome-session

See original description
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Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel) wrote :
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Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel) wrote :

Here is a screenshot of the desktop.

description: updated
Ubuntu QA Website (ubuntuqa)
tags: added: iso-testing
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Ralph Green (severian) wrote :

  I chose Close, instead of Change session, since I could not see what Change session would mean. I got the same results, anyway. As an experiment, I tried switching to a virtual console and enabling an nVidia proprietary driver. I hoped that a reboot would then let me run Unity or something. After the reboot, I never see anything but a blank screen and cannot bring up virtual consoles again.

 I got these results on a system with a Matrox G400 video card and on one with a nVidia Ti4200.

Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel)
Changed in gnome-session (Ubuntu):
milestone: none → ubuntu-10.04.3
importance: Undecided → High
status: New → Confirmed
Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel)
Changed in gnome-session (Ubuntu):
milestone: ubuntu-10.04.3 → ubuntu-11.04-beta
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Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel) wrote :

following chat on irc, gnome-panel is running, and output of xwinfo -root -tree attached to this report.

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