after applying latest updates, global appmenus are not appearing on the top of screen.

[Kate Stewart]

Symptom: updated my quantal test system to pick up the latest packages, and now there are no longer app menu's available on the top line of the window. Not able to figure out how to get at an applications menu items. Other symptoms: when minimizing a window, it appears to close.

kate@adelie:~$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu quantal (development branch)
Release: 12.10

kate@adelie:~$ apt-cache policy indicator-appmenu
indicator-appmenu:
  Installed: 12.10.1-0ubuntu1
  Candidate: 12.10.1-0ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 12.10.1-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ quantal/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

Its actually just a build issue so not a real bug (relief). Its already reported as bug 1053288 so I am marking this one as duplicate. I do believe that this may have actually fixed since I can't reproduce it anymore. The issue happened for me on Friday.

[Kate Stewart (kate.stewart)]

Omer, The bug you've marked this as a duplicate of, isn't matching the symptoms of what I'm seeing. Can you explain in more detail why you think its a build issue? I'm unmarking this a duplicate for now, and marking it as confirmed as iulian has seen it on updating packages today as well.

[Kate Stewart (kate.stewart)]

Attached are two screen shots, trying to better illustrate the issue.

@Omer, if you know of a work around to get things working again, please add this information.

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

Kate,

In your screenshots I am seeing two issues.

1. the app is running but there is no indication for that in the unity launcher on the left.
2a. there are no global menus
2b. when you maximize the app there are no window controls in the panel, neither is there the application title.

This is exactly what's reported in bug 1053288 (see Laura's screenshot).

Can you paste the result of 'apt-cache policy bamfdaemon' please.

[Kate Stewart (kate.stewart)]

kate@adelie:~$ apt-cache policy bamfdaemon
bamfdaemon:
  Installed: 0.3.0-0ubuntu2
  Candidate: 0.3.0-0ubuntu2
  Version table:
 *** 0.3.0-0ubuntu2 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ quantal/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

[Alan Pope 🍺🐧🐱 🦄 (popey)]

For anyone experiencing this bug try:-

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop^

(the caret is important and will install the ubuntu-desktop task and pull in any missing dependencies).

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

woraround was: sudo cp /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libunity-webapps.so.0.0.0 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libunity_webapps.so.0

[Timo Jyrinki (timo-jyrinki)]

This should be fixed with the latest bamf build.