Comment 2 for bug 1030445

Daniel,

I haven't submitted a bug for Ubuntu before so I am unsure of the process.
 I hope its ok to email you directly with a response to your inquiry. Just
to clarify I was not seeing a login screen. Just so you know I had been
using Gnome desktop for quite a long time since 11.04 I believe, and I
upgraded to 11.10 and then to 12.04. I never had any issues but I am
guessing this is why I am having trouble now. I had some problems with
grub due to a failed hard drive. I also had some trouble with automatic
updates causing errors as recent as mid July although I can't really
specify their cause as I didn't dig into them. I am guessing there are logs
somewhere that might be parsed but I don't know if its worth your time for
these xml parser errors. Due to the grub issue and the other errors I had
some desktop environment issues and started playing with settings and
installed and removed various packages. I made many changes and lost the
ability to log in to my system. I used chroot from live usb to attempt to
correct my problems but I wasn't successful. When I finally figured out
that if I waited at the flashing screen that was displaying "Stopping the
kernel and mountall... something plymouth" and used the Ctrl Alt F1 or F2 I
could drop to a command prompt and use StartX to load an unstable desktop.
 At that point when I was trying to get a login screen to display instead
of the flashing screen I tried to run the "unity --reset" command and got
the xml parser errors. I had to install Kubuntu to get a login screen then
I was able to login and update some packages to get a mostly stable desktop
environment although my system probably won't be stable until I reload the
OS.

I just wanted to submit the bug because the message from compiz said if you
see this you probably should file a bug. I know from previous testing
experience that sometimes when systems are all messed up like mine is you
can get a lot of strange errors. I also know that its best to let the devs
or someone knowledgable decide whether the report of the error can be used
for future fixes. Let me know if I can attempt to clarify anything.

Thanks,

JR

On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 9:13 PM, Daniel van Vugt <
<email address hidden>> wrote:

> Those warnings are mostly normal. Although the regex.xml warning looks
> like a simple failure of the XML parser to handle UTF-8 encoding of
> Ukrainian. But that should be harmless.
>
> Could you please clarify what the main problem is? Is it "unable to
> login regularly instead I have a flashing screen with various errors
> like stopping kernel and mountall stopping plymouth etc" ?
>
> ** Changed in: unity (Ubuntu)
> Status: New => Incomplete
>
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> report.
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1030445
>
> Title:
> unity reset results in compiz error
>
> Status in “unity” package in Ubuntu:
> Incomplete
>
> Bug description:
> lsb_release -rd
>
> Description: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
> Release: 12.04
>
> Unable to locate package pkgname
>
>
> I am attempting to fix desktop issues causing my Ubuntu desktop to be
> blank. I run the command unity --reset and get output
>
> Warning: Unity currently default profile, so swithching to metacity
> while resetting the values
> unity-panel-service: no process found
> checking if settings need to be migrated ...no
> checking if internal files need to be migrated ... no
> Backend :gconf
> Integration :true
> Profile :unity
> Adding plugins
> /usr/share/compiz/regex.xml:63:parser error : Premature end of data in
> tag long line 63
> <long xml:lang="uk"> (some words in russian language)
>
>
> /usr/share/compiz/regex.xml:63:parser error : Premature end of data in
> tag plug in line 3
> <long xml:lang="uk"> (some words in russian language)
>
> /usr/share/compiz/regex.xml:63:parser error : Premature end of data in
> tag compiz line 2
> <long xml:lang="uk"> (some words in russian language)
>
>
> Initializing core options...done
> compiz (core) - Warn: failed to receive ConfigureNotify event on
> 0x1000004
>
> compiz (core) - Warn: failed to receive ConfigureNotify event on
> 0x22000d6
>
> compiz (core) - Warn: failed to receive ConfigureNotify event on
> 0xa00004
>
> compiz (core) - Warn: unhandled ConfigureNotify on 0x300009e!
>
> compiz (core) - Warn: this should never happen. you should probably
> file a bug about this.
>
>
> compiz (core) - Warn: unhandled ConfigureNotify on 0x30000a1!
>
> compiz (core) - Warn: this should never happen. you should probably
> file a bug about this.
>
>
> compiz (core) - Warn: unhandled ConfigureNotify on 0x30000a4!
>
> compiz (core) - Warn: this should never happen. you should probably
> file a bug about this.
>
>
> I would expect unity to reset and be able to use my desktop instead my
> desktop is blank with only firefox and terminal shortcut. I am unable
> to login regularly instead I have a flashing screen with various
> errors like stopping kernel and mountall stopping plymouth etc. After
> a time I get this to stop using ctrl alt f1 and can use startx to get
> to incorrectly operating desktop.
>
> This began with update failures about 10 days ago resulting in ubuntu
> system errors. I had a hdd fail and grub was reloaded causing me to
> not be able to use gnome desktop.
>
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