Gnome shell and ubuntu unity do not appear.

[Sketches]

When I log into unity or gnome shell I do not get gnome shell at all just gnome classic with worse icnos and things (attached screenshot. Unity is not proper clean unity it has the same poor icons and jittery performance.

This started happening about four days ago.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: xorg 1:7.6+7ubuntu7
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.19-generic 3.0.4
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic i686
.tmp.unity.support.test.0:

.tmp.unity.support.test.1:

ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu2
Architecture: i386
CompizPlugins: [core,bailer,detection,composite,opengl,decor,vpswitch,compiztoolbox,move,imgpng,gnomecompat,grid,mousepoll,place,snap,unitymtgrabhandles,regex,resize,animation,session,workarounds,expo,wall,ezoom,fade,scale,unityshell]
CompositorRunning: None
Date: Tue Oct 4 18:52:49 2011
DistUpgraded: Fresh install
DistroCodename: oneiric
DistroVariant: ubuntu
ExtraDebuggingInterest: Yes, if not too technical
GraphicsCard:
 ATI Technologies Inc AMD Radeon HD 6310 GraphicsATI [1002:9802] (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
   Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:1611]
MachineType: Hewlett-Packard HP Pavilion dm1 Notebook PC
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.0.0-12-generic root=UUID=3bffd320-5e04-4975-81d3-b493233f23a9 ro quiet splash pcie_aspm=force vt.handoff=7
SourcePackage: xorg
Symptom: display
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
dmi.bios.date: 04/26/2011
dmi.bios.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
dmi.bios.version: F.12
dmi.board.asset.tag: Base Board Asset Tag
dmi.board.name: 1611
dmi.board.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
dmi.board.version: 96.39
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: Chassis Asset Tag
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
dmi.chassis.version: Chassis Version
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnHewlett-Packard:bvrF.12:bd04/26/2011:svnHewlett-Packard:pnHPPaviliondm1NotebookPC:pvr0589100000252B00000320100:rvnHewlett-Packard:rn1611:rvr96.39:cvnHewlett-Packard:ct10:cvrChassisVersion:
dmi.product.name: HP Pavilion dm1 Notebook PC
dmi.product.version: 0589100000252B00000320100
dmi.sys.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
version.compiz: compiz 1:0.9.6+bzr20110929-0ubuntu2
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+7ubuntu7
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

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

Hey conor-smurf,

Hi, thanks for reporting this issue during the development period of
Ubuntu.

I notice there's not been further comments to the bug report since the
release came out, would you mind updating us on the status of it in the
release?

Are you still able to reproduce the issue? If not, do you think the bug
report can be closed, or do you think we should continue tracking it?

[bugbot (bugbot)]

We're closing this bug since it is has been some time with no response from the original reporter. However, if the issue still exists please feel free to reopen with the requested information. Also, if you could, please test against the latest development version of Ubuntu, since this confirms the bug is one we may be able to pass upstream for help.