Nvidia driver removed on upgrade -> Unity won't work
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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ubuntu-release-upgrader (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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High
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
I upgraded to 12.10 this morning, restarted the computer, logged-in, and then Unity launcher and the top-bar didn't show up.
However, the desktop was ok and I could open guake. Because I noticed before the upgrade that nvidia-current was going to be removed I tried to reinstall it using apt-get and it fixed the problem.
That might be also a problem in fglrx, which was the replacement, but as I have a Nvidia card it probably shouldn't be installed at all in first place.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
Package: update-manager 1:0.174.1
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-16-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelMo
ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Oct 3 09:39:28 2012
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InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04.2 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 (20110211.1)
PackageArchitec
SourcePackage: update-manager
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to quantal on 2012-10-03 (0 days ago)
tags: | added: dist-upgrade |
description: | updated |
affects: | update-manager (Ubuntu) → ubuntu-release-upgrader (Ubuntu) |
Changed in ubuntu-release-upgrader (Ubuntu): | |
importance: | Undecided → High |
Thanks for having reported this bug and helping in making Ubuntu better and sorry for having your report unanswered for so long.
It seems that was caused the error you observed is described in the following line of the file "main.log" that apport attached to the report:
2012-10-02 20:03:12,094 DEBUG nvidiaUpdate()
2012-10-02 20:03:14,092 ERROR NvidiaDetection returned a error: invalid literal for int() with base 10: 'experimental-304'
Do you remember if you had any special nvidia driver installed when you did the upgrade or you were just using the ones provided by Ubuntu?