If the machine halts, Unity fails to start on reboot

Bug #760276 reported by Michael Hope
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unity (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

My machine is having trouble with the current kernel and often halts. On restarting the machine, the desktop fails to show. If I turn the machine off and on again after that Unity returns.

The machine goes through the following steps:
 * Grub
 * Ubuntu boot time splash screen
 * Mouse pointer appears and works
 * Startup sound plays
 * Machine stays on the splash screen

On the second boot the pointer changes from a pointer to the spinning wait pointer, then the desktop shows.

I have auto login turned on. This is with 3.8.6-0.

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Bilal Akhtar (bilalakhtar) wrote :

When you experience this issue, could you kindly copy the .xsession-errors file in your home directory to some other directory with another name from a tty and then, attach it to this bug report when you come to a normal boot?

Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
status: New → Incomplete
Changed in unity:
status: New → Incomplete
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Linaro Toolchain Builder (cbuild) wrote :

error log attached

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

[Expired for unity (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → Expired
Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
status: Expired → Incomplete
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

[Expired for Unity because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → Expired
Changed in unity:
status: Incomplete → Expired
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