Mutter does not run on X11

[Owais Lone]

On Ubuntu 17.10 Gnome Shell does not start on X11 session. Trying to run Ubuntu on X from GDM results in a black screen and a border less geary window (startup application). Gnome shell/mutter never starts.

Same things happens with Budgie desktop which uses mutter as well.

I'm able to run mate and cinnamon on X11 perfectly fine but GnomeShell and Budgie only run on Wayland.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 17.10
Package: mutter 3.26.2-0ubuntu0.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.13.0-16.19-generic 4.13.4
Uname: Linux 4.13.0-16-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.7-0ubuntu3.4
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Mon Nov 20 11:07:11 2017
InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-11-19 (0 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 17.10 "Artful Aardvark" - Release amd64 (20171018)
SourcePackage: mutter
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

From your logs it appears you have a few "Permission denied" errors on files within your home directory. This can happen easily as a consequence of running some things as root in a previous session.

To fix this, please log into a VT (or MATE or Cinnamon) and run:

  sudo chown -R $USER ~

or more specifically:

  sudo chown -R username /home/username

That should fix your "Permission denied" errors, and possibly this whole bug.

[Owais Lone (loneowais)]

I fixed the permissions but it didn't resolve the issue unfortunately.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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