Unity closed for no reason

[Eric]

I shut down my computer after installing vlc player on ubuntu 11.10 and when it turned back on unity was gone, just some stupid bar that would only let me open files. I managed to get here by going through ubuntu one luckily but if I did have that I would be screwed right now! Even in 2D mode there is no unity. I loved ubuntu till this new update. I have had tons of problems with Unity! If I could just get it working again without re-installing my whole system that would be great.

[Robert Roth (evfool)]

I had the same issue, the update with the fix should be available very soon, but until then, as a workaround, try rebooting, as the issue shouldn't reproduce every time, as it is a race condition only happening from time to time.

[Robert Roth (evfool)]

Please comment if it happens to you all the time.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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