whole system completely unusable after a reboot

[Teo]

After a reboot, my almost newly installed Ubuntu 13.04 has become completely unusable, in that after booting and logging in, there is no launcher, and no system bar on the top of the screen.

There's no way I can run any program.

Since I have a .odt file on the desktop (it's the only thing I had on my desktop), I have tried double clicking it, and it correctly opens in OpenOffice Writer, but the windows have no borders or titlebar.

Something got badly broken without an apparent reason.

The last things I had done before the first boot that showed the issue was to install virtualbox and run it once (just to create a vm that I didn't run yet), and install the nvidia-current package via sudo apt-get install nvidia-current. Then I rebooted and the issue appeared.

Since then, I have run sudo apt-get remove virtualbox-x.xx (don't remember the version) and sudo apt-get remove nvidia-current, but neither has fixed the issue.

I'm writing the report from another computer.

Then we get surprised that most people still use Windows.

[Stephen M. Webb (bregma)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Please execute the following command, as it will automatically gather debugging information, in a terminal:

  apport-collect 1239434

You should be able to reach the command line on a virtuakl terminal by pressing the control-alt-F2 combination and logging in.

[Teo (teo1978)]

This was caused by installing nvidia-current, and wasn't fixed by uninstalling it.

Better report:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nvidia-graphics-drivers-304/+bug/1239472

[Teo (teo1978)]

By the way, see https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apport/+bug/1239475 which prevents me from running apport-collect