Unity not working on Oneiric Alpha amd64 (fglrx graphics)

[Tony Mugan]

I upgraded from Natty to Oneiric to test the early Alphas.
This worked for a while and then the Unity desktop stopped appearing and the desktop continually flickered.

I was able to get into a terminal to continue updating so the wifi connection was still being made.

A further update stopped the desktop from flickering but Unity was still not visible.

I then switched into a terminal (ctrl-alt-F1) to check if Unity was actually installed.
It was then installed and showed that many other components were no longer required. (see below)

I am in Gnome now and that is usable.

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me@mypc:~$ sudo apt-get install unity
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
unity is already the newest version.
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  indicator-datetime-gtk2 libegl1-mesa-dev libqtgconf1 libunity-2d-private0 libqtbamf1
  libxxf86vm-dev libqt4-opengl libqtdee2 x11proto-gl-dev unity-2d-spread
  libdconf-dbus-1-0 indicator-messages-gtk2 libgck0 indicator-me-gtk2
  x11proto-xf86vidmode-dev indicator-appmenu-gtk2 libntfs-3g80 xdiagnose libqt4-svg
  indicator-sound-gtk2 indicator-application-gtk2 unity-2d-places libdconf-qt0
  unity-2d-launcher x11proto-dri2-dev indicator-session-gtk2
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: unity 4.8.0-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-8.11-generic 3.0.1
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-8-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
Architecture: amd64
CompizPlugins: No value set for `/apps/compiz-1/general/screen0/options/active_plugins'
Date: Sun Aug 14 11:31:24 2011
DistUpgraded: Log time: 2011-07-18 20:16:52.669368
DistroCodename: oneiric
DistroVariant: ubuntu
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Alpha amd64 (20110319)
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: unity
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-07-27 (17 days ago)
version.compiz: compiz 1:0.9.5.0-0ubuntu5
version.ia32-libs: ia32-libs 20090808ubuntu13
version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.26-1ubuntu1
version.libgl1-mesa-dri: libgl1-mesa-dri 7.11-0ubuntu3
version.libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental: libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental N/A
version.libgl1-mesa-glx: libgl1-mesa-glx 7.11-0ubuntu3
version.xserver-xorg: xserver-xorg 1:7.6+7ubuntu6
version.xserver-xorg-input-evdev: xserver-xorg-input-evdev 1:2.6.0-1ubuntu13
version.xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:6.14.99~git20110811.g93fc084-0ubuntu1
version.xserver-xorg-video-intel: xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.15.901-1ubuntu2
version.xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:0.0.16+git20110411+8378443-1

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 819144, so is being marked as such. Any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to report any other bugs you may find.

[Tony Mugan (tmugan)]

Thanks Omer, that is correct.