metacity starts and dies

[SoloTurn]

Binary package hint: metacity

after upgrading to lucid lynx, log into a gnome session is broken:
1. the default language of the computer is german, the desired login language on gdm is english. logging in leads to a german gnome panel, with strange effects (like sound "alles stummschalten (=mute)" (german) and "unmute" (english).
2. metacity starts and then dies (or ... does not display any window borders)
3. opening a command prompt and typing "metacity --replace" gives the windows ... but the buttons minimize-maximize-close are on the left side instead on the right.

[SoloTurn (soloturn)]

the version i upgraded from was 9.10

[Mitch Towner (kermiac)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This report actually appears to be 3 different/separate issues & I believe they have been reported already. I will address these issues in the same order that you have reported them.

1. This appears to be a dupe of bug 439392 or possibly bug 434173.
2. This appears to be a graphics card related issue. This can be rectified by re-installing your graphics card driver.
3. This is a duplicate of bug 532633. This is a design decision.

If the above comments are true, please comment &/or close this bug report. It would be best to please keep separate issues as separate bug reports in the future. This makes it easier to deal with each issue individually. Please see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs for more info. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find. Thanks in advance!

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to New. Thanks again!.