Comment 0 for bug 1239472

Fresh install of Ubuntu 13.04
- sudo apt-get install nvidia-current
- reboot

=> the whole system becomes completely unusable. When you boot, there's no Unity launcher nor Unity's top bar. Only an empty desktop. Windows don't have borders nor title bars (apparently compiz crashes at startup).

And the worst thing is that uninstalling nvidia-current (or nvidia-304), won't revert the situation.

The only way I got Unity running again was by purging nvidia* (sudo apt-get purge nvidia*) AND manually deleting /etc/X11/xorg.conf.

So
1 - nvidia driver is broken, or sudo apt-get nvidia-current doesn't install it properly
2 - sudo apt-get remove should completely reverse the installation and it doesn't.

If you have the unlucky idea to try and install nvidia-current you may end up with an unusable and apparently unrecoverable system, which can be pretty hard to figure out how to fix.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04
Package: nvidia-current (not installed)
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-31.46-generic 3.8.13.8
Uname: Linux 3.8.0-31-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.9.2-0ubuntu8.3
Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon Oct 14 01:42:19 2013
InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-10-11 (2 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 13.04 "Raring Ringtail" - Release amd64 (20130424)
MarkForUpload: True
SourcePackage: nvidia-graphics-drivers-304
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)