Cinnamon desktop hangs when selecting menu

[Scott Dunbar]

I've installed Cinnamon from the Ubuntu repository, not an external PPA. The desktop comes up and I select the menu. The menu is unusable and the entire desktop then hangs. The mouse moves (though I can't click on anything) and I'm able to do a CRTL/ALT/F3 type of command. The console login works fine and I can reboot.

I am using the Nvidia libraries.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10
Package: cinnamon 1.7.4-2ubuntu4.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.11.0-15.23-generic 3.11.10
Uname: Linux 3.11.0-15-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.12.5-0ubuntu2.2
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sun Jan 5 20:27:05 2014
InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-01-05 (0 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 13.10 "Saucy Salamander" - Release amd64 (20131016.1)
MarkForUpload: True
SourcePackage: cinnamon
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Scott Dunbar (scott-xigole)]

In .xsession-errors I have:

(cinnamon:5868): Cogl-ERROR **: Failed to create an OpenGL framebuffer object

I will attempt to not use the Nvidia drivers and see what happens

[Scott Dunbar (scott-xigole)]

Removing the Nvidia driver (nvidia-319-updates) and using the xserver-xorg-video-nouveau driver makes no difference.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Andrej Smulik (rura)]

I used Cinnamon on freshly installed 13.04, but now I upgraded (do-release-upgrade) to 13.10 and my experience is similar, after login everything works until I open menu, then desktop freeze, except mouse movements. Creating new accout doesn't help. I am using Intel(R) HD Graphics 2500.

[Daniel Wagenaar (dawagenaar)]

This bug does not occur with Cinnamon 2.0.14 on Ubuntu 13.10. A workaround is to add

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/gwendal-lebihan-dev/cinnamon-stable/ubuntu saucy main

to your repositories. One word of caution though: When I did that, I lost a lot of my settings. This required delving into dconf-editor to repair, because Cinnamon's preferences GUI on Ubuntu is rather confusing. (For instance, in my Preference menu, there are two entries for several items including "Displays" and "Sound".)

[Flames_in_Paradise (ellisistfroh-deactivatedaccount)]

Probably this error should get listed in the Release Notes 14.04 ?

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

This is fixed in Utopic which is the development release of Ubuntu, so I'm marking the task as Fix Released.

 $ rmadison cinnamon
 cinnamon | 2.2.16-3 | utopic/universe | source, amd64, arm64, armhf, i386, powerpc, ppc64el