Gnome menus & window titles missing

[Tai]

Binary package hint: unity

When I booted into Natty for the first time I didn't get any of the normal gnome menus, all I received was the "Examples" directory on the Desktop and "Install Ubuntu 11.04"

By opening the Examples directory I was able to open some programs, however all programs have the following issues:

1. No title bars are displayed (close minimise etc.)
2. Don't switch depths - when I have a program open and open another program opens up over the top of it, clicking on the first program doesn't bring it into the foreground.

Behaviour I was expecting is:

1. The normal gnome menus to be displayed upon startup
2. Title bars to be displayed on applications
3. Application windows should change depths when clicking between them.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: unity 3.2.2-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.37-7.19-generic 2.6.37-rc3
Uname: Linux 2.6.37-7-generic i686
Architecture: i386
CompizPlugins: No value set for `/apps/compiz/general/allscreens/options/active_plugins'
Date: Sat Dec 4 23:15:16 2010
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Alpha i386 (20101202)
LiveMediaBuild_: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Alpha i386 (20101202)
MachineType: Dell Computer Corporation Dell DE051
PciDisplay: 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation 82865G Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:2572] (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcKernelCmdLine: noprompt cdrom-detect/try-usb=true persistent file=/cdrom/preseed/hostname.seed boot=casper initrd=/casper/initrd.lz quiet splash -- maybe-ubiquity
ProcVersionSignature_: Ubuntu 2.6.37-7.19-generic 2.6.37-rc3
RelatedPackageVersions:
 xserver-xorg 1:7.5+6ubuntu3b1
 libgl1-mesa-glx 7.9+repack-1ubuntu3
 libdrm2 2.4.22-2ubuntu1
 xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.13.901-2ubuntu1
 xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:6.13.2-1ubuntu2
SourcePackage: unity
XorgConf: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/etc/X11/xorg.conf'
dmi.bios.date: 01/03/2006
dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Computer Corporation
dmi.bios.version: A01
dmi.board.name: 0WF887
dmi.board.vendor: Dell Computer Corp.
dmi.chassis.type: 6
dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Computer Corporation
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnDellComputerCorporation:bvrA01:bd01/03/2006:svnDellComputerCorporation:pnDellDE051:pvr:rvnDellComputerCorp.:rn0WF887:rvr:cvnDellComputerCorporation:ct6:cvr:
dmi.product.name: Dell DE051
dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Computer Corporation
glxinfo: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
system: distro = Ubuntu, architecture = i686, kernel = 2.6.37-7-generic

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

thats a bug in compiz as i faced it too on a system (without unity enabled) there are two things you can do at the moment. find metacity in the applications folder and open it (it will bring your panels too, they are running but not visible). or open tty1, login and do the following.

$ export DISPLAY=:0
$ metacity --replace

[Paul Sladen (sladen)]

With what Omer suggests, you should then be able to go System->Administration->Login and change the default session.

[Tai (ilikeprivacy)]

The tty1 method posted by Omer has given me the window controls and fixed the window depth issue, however the panels aren't displaying.

I receive the following error:

ubuntu@ubuntu:/etc$ metacity --replace
Window manager warning: Type mismatch: Expected `int' got `bool' for key /apps/metacity/general/num_workspaces
Window manager warning: 0 stored in GConf key /apps/metacity/general/num_workspaces is out of range 1 to 36

Using gconf-editor editor the value is a bool, I wasn't able to locate the config file where this is set (all the files I was able to find had it set to int).

Further to my initial bug report (I noticed it upon booting up again), I should have mentioned that when the window comes up asking if I want to try ubuntu (which I selected) or install ubuntu the panels and window borders are showing correctly, the display manager appears to shut down following this and starts up again with window borders and panels missing.

[Tai (ilikeprivacy)]

After a bit of back and forth restarting gdm and killing the greet program followed by running gnome-panel I have it running as I expected.

[Barry Drake (b-drake)]

I originally reported this bug on #693073. My technical details are posted under that bug. I find the problem got a lot worse with yesterday's Alpha 2 image. Compiz crashes randomly. Clicking on the top right Ubuntu icon gives me a black nautilus window with no contents menus or anything else active. This crashes Compiz if I try to do anything with it. Nautilus opened from the 'file manager' icon on the sidebar works properly I tried to run ubuntu-bug compiz from the terminal, but lost it. Will try again!

[Barry Drake (b-drake)]

Managed to get an apport text file - attached.

[Barry Drake (b-drake)]

Here is a screenshot showing what happens when the Ubuntu icon on top left panel is clicked.

[Sam Spilsbury (smspillaz)]

On Sat, Feb 5, 2011 at 9:00 PM, Barry Drake <email address hidden> wrote:
> Managed to get an apport text file - attached.
>
> ** Attachment added: "barry_drake_apport.txt"
>   https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/compiz/+bug/685325/+attachment/1831633/+files/barry_drake_apport.txt
>

The crash you're getting is in the nouveau driver when nux does
something it doesn't like. Unfortunately there's no fix for this at
the moment as the driver is unsupported.

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[Sam Spilsbury (smspillaz)]

On Sat, Feb 5, 2011 at 9:12 PM, Barry Drake <email address hidden> wrote:
> Here is a screenshot showing what happens when the Ubuntu icon on top
> left panel is clicked.
>
> ** Attachment added: "Screenshot.png"
>   https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/compiz/+bug/685325/+attachment/1831642/+files/Screenshot.png
>

Yes, that's the (incomplete) dash.

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[Barry Drake (b-drake)]

Thanks. I guess there's no workaround to this? Can you point me to any useful information here? Can't do much about the hardware as the video in onboard on my mobo. This is going to affect a fair number of users, I would have thought?

[Barry Drake (b-drake)]

Don't know where to run with this. Tried all the different computers I have in my house. A Dell Inspiron Laptop gave exactly the same result as the above. An older PC I have ( I can get the hardware spec if it will help) boots up just fine, and presents me with the Gnome desktop. If I try to run Unity (neither Unity nor Compiz are running) ... if I try to run Unity from the terminal, it gives a fatal error when trying to start Compiz.

It gets worse. I have access to my wife's PC. Fairly modern - around two years old. Again I can get the hardware details if required. It is currently running 10.04 perfectly well. It will not boot into the liveCD - it fails during boot with the error (intramfs) stin: I/O error mount: mounting /dev/loop0 on //filesystem.squashfs failed: no such device

I tried 11.10 and this gives the same error while booting the liveCD.

I'm a bit worried - four computers in one household, and none of them can boot Natty properly!

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Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. We are sorry that we do not always have the capacity to look at all reported bugs in a timely manner. There have been many changes in Ubuntu since that time you reported the bug and your problem may have been fixed with some of the updates. It would help us a lot if you could test it on a currently supported Ubuntu version. When you test it and it is still an issue, kindly upload the updated logs by running apport-collect <bug #> and any other logs that are relevant for this particular issue.

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[Jacknight (douglas-magnenat)]

I have a similar bug with Ubuntu 12.04 though the depth part is working.

The title bar of each application is not displayed and I can't move some of the application windows. (I can move Firefox window, but not Nautilus or OpenOffice windows.

This happend after the last update.
The updater request me to reboot.
After the reboot it could download somthing. I tried again without success clicking on retry.
Now I rebooted and it doesn't ask me again but this time I got everything screw-up like described above.

[Jacknight (douglas-magnenat)]

After a new reboot, it seems to work correctely. I keep testing and let you know if it happend again.

[Jacknight (douglas-magnenat)]

After several reboot, the issue remains fixed. That's cool !