Comment 19 for bug 772207

Me too....

The display attempts to show a desktop, but cycles between a plain background and then a background with expected desktop icons (and then back to a plain desktop, ad infinitum). Booting into safe mode works as expected with a message about Unity.

#lshw
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           *-display
                description: VGA compatible controller
                product: NV34 [GeForce FX 5200]
                vendor: nVidia Corporation
                physical id: 0
                bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0
                version: a1
                width: 32 bits
                clock: 66MHz
                capabilities: pm agp agp-3.0 vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom
                configuration: driver=nvidia latency=64 maxlatency=1 mingnt=5
                resources: irq:16 memory:fd000000-fdffffff memory:f0000000-f7ffffff memory:fea00000-fea1ffff