Unity 3D not working

[Brian J. Rohan]

I had posted a similar bug, which was then moved to another bug report (963465), however, I don't think they are the same. Previously when I would boot my laptop, I would be able to only see a desktop background, no icons, etc. I could boot into recovery mode, which would then boot me into 2D just fine. Now when I boot normally (I just updated my packages after receiving and email that previous bug fix was released.

Now when I boot into my system since applying the most recent updates via package manager, I boot into 3D, I can see the desktop wallpaper, my icons, and authenticate my keyring. After this I receive an error message that there is no system tray, exiting, and my system just sits there. I can not get the launcher to appear etc.

In a nutshell, it appears I can boot into 3D, just not do anything.

Thank you

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: xorg 1:7.6+12ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-20.33-generic 3.2.12
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-20-generic i686
.tmp.unity.support.test.1:

ApportVersion: 2.0-0ubuntu1
Architecture: i386
CompizPlugins: No value set for `/apps/compiz-1/general/screen0/options/active_plugins'
CompositorRunning: None
Date: Fri Mar 30 07:46:46 2012
DistUpgraded: Fresh install
DistroCodename: precise
DistroVariant: ubuntu
ExtraDebuggingInterest: Yes, whatever it takes to get this fixed in Ubuntu
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release i386 (20111012)
MachineType: Dell Inc. MM061
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.2.0-20-generic root=UUID=3f3d0e92-2b6a-4fb5-82f7-33d654046bd4 ro recovery nomodeset resume=UUID=acae50bf-5962-4718-b302-372e04f9a929
Renderer: Software
SourcePackage: xorg
Symptom: display
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
dmi.bios.date: 04/20/2007
dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.bios.version: A15
dmi.board.name: 0XD720
dmi.board.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.chassis.type: 8
dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnDellInc.:bvrA15:bd04/20/2007:svnDellInc.:pnMM061:pvr:rvnDellInc.:rn0XD720:rvr:cvnDellInc.:ct8:cvr:
dmi.product.name: MM061
dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Inc.
version.compiz: compiz 1:0.9.7.2-0ubuntu4
version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.32-1ubuntu1
version.libgl1-mesa-dri: libgl1-mesa-dri 8.0.2-0ubuntu3
version.libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental: libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental N/A
version.libgl1-mesa-glx: libgl1-mesa-glx 8.0.2-0ubuntu3
version.xserver-xorg-core: xserver-xorg-core 2:1.11.4-0ubuntu8
version.xserver-xorg-input-evdev: xserver-xorg-input-evdev 1:2.7.0-0ubuntu1
version.xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:6.14.99~git20111219.aacbd629-0ubuntu2
version.xserver-xorg-video-intel: xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.17.0-1ubuntu4
version.xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:0.0.16+git20111201+b5534a1-1build2

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

All - This bug is not a duplicate of bug 963633. Please don't mark it as such.

[Michael Stephenson (mickstephenson)]

I have something similar when booting into Unity 3D, but only when I use the proprietary nvidia driver for my 8800 GTS

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

unity support test says that your system does not support the required feature to run Unity3D. https://launchpadlibrarian.net/99033086/UnitySupportTest.txt

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

If the Unity support test fails then I would kind of expect starting Unity 3D to fail, or hang, or something. The question really is: Why would lightdm start Unity3D when it's not supported?