Unity crashes on startup

[Shane Fagan]

Binary package hint: unity

Unity crashed on startup on my ATI machine I started up in safe mode and did a unity --reset and got the output attached. Unity did work before with the open source drivers but I installed flgrx and it failed to install so I removed it and unity didnt work after that. I dont know if it was after installing flgrx or updating unity that did the damage though.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: unity 3.6.2-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-6.34-generic 2.6.38-rc7
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-6-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
CompizPlugins: [core,bailer,detection,composite,opengl,decor,mousepoll,vpswitch,regex,animation,snap,expo,move,compiztoolbox,place,grid,imgpng,gnomecompat,wall,ezoom,workarounds,staticswitcher,resize,fade,unitymtgrabhandles,scale,session,unityshell]
CompositorRunning: None
DRM.card0.DVI.D.1:
 status: disconnected
 enabled: disabled
 dpms: On
 modes:
 edid-base64:
DRM.card0.VGA.1:
 status: connected
 enabled: enabled
 dpms: On
 modes: 1280x1024 1280x1024 1152x864 1024x768 1024x768 1024x768 832x624 800x600 800x600 800x600 800x600 640x480 640x480 640x480 640x480 720x400
 edid-base64: AP///////wBBDCsII0oDABAQAQMfIht47r61o1ZImiQVUFS/74CBgAEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBMCoAmFEAKkAwcBMAUg4RAAAeAAAA/wAgQlogIDIxNTU4NwogAAAA/ABQaGlsaXBzIDE3MFMKAAAA/QA4TB5TDgAKICAgICAgAMQ=
Date: Wed Mar 9 23:15:52 2011
DistUpgraded: Log time: 2011-02-13 14:44:17.722655
DistroCodename: natty
DistroVariant: ubuntu
GraphicsCard:
 ATI Technologies Inc Radeon HD 3200 Graphics [1002:9610] (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
   Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device [1025:014f]
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release amd64 (20101007)
InstallationMedia_: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release amd64 (20101007)
InstallationMedia__: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release amd64 (20101007)
MachineType: Acer Veriton M421G
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_IE:en
 LANG=en_IE.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.38-6-generic root=UUID=d4fbd7cd-997e-4c5a-9549-833f59682c59 ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
ProcVersionSignature_: Ubuntu 2.6.38-6.34-generic 2.6.38-rc7
ProcVersionSignature__: Ubuntu 2.6.38-6.34-generic 2.6.38-rc7
Renderer: Unknown
SourcePackage: unity
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-03-09 (0 days ago)
dmi.bios.date: 11/12/2009
dmi.bios.vendor: Acer
dmi.bios.version: P12-B1
dmi.board.asset.tag: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
dmi.board.name: RS780DV
dmi.board.vendor: Acer
dmi.chassis.type: 3
dmi.chassis.vendor: Acer
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAcer:bvrP12-B1:bd11/12/2009:svnAcer:pnVeritonM421G:pvr:rvnAcer:rnRS780DV:rvr:cvnAcer:ct3:cvr:
dmi.product.name: Veriton M421G
dmi.sys.vendor: Acer
version.compiz: compiz 1:0.9.4-0ubuntu4
version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.24+git20110307.3b04c736-0ubuntu0sarvatt
version.libgl1-mesa-glx: libgl1-mesa-glx 7.11.0+git20110309.caaa7fdd-0ubuntu0sarvatt
version.xserver-xorg: xserver-xorg 1:7.6~3ubuntu11
version.xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:6.14.99+git20110307.6319a33c-0ubuntu0sarvatt
version.xserver-xorg-video-intel: xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.14.901+git20110309.014fc7ab-0ubuntu0sarvatt
version.xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:0.0.16+git20110307.92db2bc1-0ubuntu0sarvatt

[Shane Fagan (shanepatrickfagan)]

Oh my bad it may be just the fact im using the unity daily so ill report back when I get the next update if its still happening.

[Alex Launi (alexlauni)]

Can you check and see which drivers are actually in use? You may have some weird library mismatches from the failed fglrx install. Are you seeing weirdness with compiz in a gnome 2 session?

[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!