The Unity interface does not appear

[bp]

Ever since my upgrade from 12.10 to 13.04, Unity has failed to work properly. I get no side bar with the list of applications. I get no top bar with the menu bars; the menu bars are now actually embedded in each window.

I got no window decorations until I upgraded some packages (some of them being compiz and unity) and installed xfce; either one of those granted me window decorations. If I run compiz --replace or unity, however, I lose window decorations or the ability to move and resize windows.

I get the same problem with both the nvidia-313 drivers or the nouveau + mesa drivers, so I'm filing this against unity.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04
Package: unity 7.0.0daily13.04.10-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-17.27-generic 3.8.6
Uname: Linux 3.8.0-17-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.9.2-0ubuntu7
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: Thu Apr 11 22:50:47 2013
InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-03-15 (392 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release amd64 (20111012)
MarkForUpload: True
SourcePackage: unity
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to raring on 2013-04-08 (2 days ago)

[Christopher Townsend (townsend)]

Based on the behavior of this bug, this is a dup of bug #1166765. It appears a recent update has affected (some) Nvidia based machines.