Ubuntu
compiz package

After pressing Preferences in CCSM, Unity (only 3d) fails to load panel and top bar

Bug #888584 reported by JC on 2011-11-10

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #874799: Broken list of profiles is given by compizconfig-backend-gconf. Edit Remove

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	compiz (Ubuntu)	New	Undecided	Unassigned
	unity (Ubuntu)	New	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

I saw that in Oneiric-proposed that there was a new fix to Compiz that prevented some sort of crash between Unity and Compiz brought on by pressing Preferences in CCSM. Unfotunately everything froze and I had to hard shut my computer. Now Unity fails to load the panel and the top bar shows only places. I cannot log out by any means nor can I press the super button for anything (the panel IS gone!)
I really don't feel like reinstalling.
I even had to go to Nautilus and access Chrome through /usr/share/applications
Pressing the power button to bring up shut down, restart, etc. does work.
Again, this does NOT affect Gnome Shell nor does it affect Unity-2d.

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JC (nothingness) wrote on 2011-11-10:

This shows what has happened (my mouse is on the left-middle; it doesn't show in the screenshot) Edit (376.0 KiB, image/png)

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JC (nothingness) wrote on 2011-11-10:

Here are all of the updates that I installed from Proposed before this happened. Edit (139.5 KiB, image/png)

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JC (nothingness) wrote on 2011-11-10:

I opened CCSM and saw that most of my settings had been altered. The Unity Plugin was turned off, so I re-enabled it and resolved all conflicts. All is good now.