Whenever I try to open an app it crashes

[Rodrigo Lledó]

Hi, I'm using Ubuntu 15.10. When I try to open the store, browser or settings a window is poped up with the tiny loading icon and then it closes unexpectedly.
I'm not using a LXC container. Just installed the unity8-desktop-session-mir package.

unity-system-compositor --version

0.2.0

Mir version: 0.17.0+15.10.20151008.2-0ubuntu1

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for your bug report. could you copy the output of "sudo systemctl start cgmanager" here? also could you add your ~/.cache/upstart/unity8-dash.log to the bug?

[Rodrigo Lledó (rodhos-hp)]

"sudo systemctl start cgmanager" gives nothing.
Maybe I should mention I'm not using a LXC container. Just installed the unity8-desktop-session-mir package because I recived the message: "unable to start lxc container" but this is for another bug.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Stephen M. Webb (bregma)]

If typing the command 'service cgmanager status | grep -i active' in the terminal does not who a line containing "active (running)" then this problem is caused by the control group manager not being installed or configured correctly. That manager is used by upstart to run apps in a confined space (yes, even on the desktop). There is a known problem in which this software is not being installed or configured correctly.

If this problem is occurring for you, please issue the above command and check the output.

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

Is this a duplicate of bug 1535058 or vice versa?

[Rodrigo Lledó (rodhos-hp)]

@bregma I reinstalled Ubuntu so I needed to install unity8 to test the command. As a result I am not able to reproduce the bug anymore.
Anyway, the status now is: active (running).

@vanvugt I do not know. The most complete and well described wins.

[almejo (alejandro-vera)]

Hi!!

I am experiencing the bug. When I run 'service cgmanager status | grep -i active' I got this:

Active: inactive (dead)

What can I check and fix to get the apps running?

I am using 16.04 and unity8 session (not the lxd)

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

Please try one of the workarounds mentioned in bug 1535058 like:
   sudo apt-get install libpam-cgfs

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for unity8-desktop-session (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]