No drop-down menus anywhere in natty alpha

[Bitterjug]

Running natty from a usb stick to test the new unity.
I have no drop-down menus anywhere:

The top panel ubuntu menu, clock, sound and network manager icons dont have drop downs.
Normal appllication menus don't appear (though the relevant menu item shows a highlight when selected)
And in firefox, combo drop downs don't appear either.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: xorg 1:7.5+6ubuntu6
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.37-11.25-generic 2.6.37-rc7
Uname: Linux 2.6.37-11-generic i686
Architecture: i386
DRM.card0.LVDS.1:
 status: connected
 enabled: enabled
 dpms: On
 modes: 1280x800 1024x768
 edid-base64: AP///////wBMo1cxAAAAAAAOAQOAHBJ4Cof1lFdPjCcnUFQACAABAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBSh0AwFAgMTAQMBMABaMQAAAZAAAADwAAAAAAAAAAADLSAjIAAAAA/gBZNDM5NgExMjFXMQogAAAA/gD/+vHjsXtAAAEBCiAgAKc=
DRM.card0.VGA.1:
 status: disconnected
 enabled: disabled
 dpms: Off
 modes:
 edid-base64:
Date: Thu Dec 30 18:23:54 2010
DistUpgraded: Fresh install
DistroCodename: natty
DistroVariant: ubuntu
GdmLog2: Not present
GraphicsCard:
 Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. Device [1462:0121]
   Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. Device [1462:0121]
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Alpha i386 (20101230)
MachineType: Notebook SIM2010
PccardctlStatus:
 Socket 0:
   3.3V 16-bit PC Card
   Subdevice 0 (function 0) bound to driver "sdricoh_cs"
 Socket 1:
   no card
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US:en
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 LC_MESSAGES=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcKernelCmdLine: noprompt cdrom-detect/try-usb=true persistent file=/cdrom/preseed/hostname.seed boot=casper initrd=/casper/initrd.lz quiet splash -- maybe-ubiquity
SourcePackage: xorg
Symptom: display
UnitySupportTest:

dmi.bios.date: 11/15/2005
dmi.bios.vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
dmi.bios.version: MME1.90
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: No Asset Tag
dmi.chassis.type: 11
dmi.chassis.vendor: MICRO-STAR INT'L CO.,LTD
dmi.chassis.version: N/A
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAmericanMegatrendsInc.:bvrMME1.90:bd11/15/2005:svnNotebook:pnSIM2010:pvr0121:cvnMICRO-STARINT'LCO.,LTD:ct11:cvrN/A:
dmi.product.name: SIM2010
dmi.product.version: 0121
dmi.sys.vendor: Notebook
version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.22-2ubuntu1
version.libgl1-mesa-glx: libgl1-mesa-glx 7.9+repack-1ubuntu3
version.xserver-xorg: xserver-xorg 1:7.5+6ubuntu6
version.xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:6.13.2-1ubuntu2
version.xserver-xorg-video-intel: xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.13.901-2ubuntu2
version.xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:0.0.16+git20100805+b96170a-0ubuntu1

[Robert Roth (evfool)]

Could you please try after startup making an empty selection on the desktop bakckground, and try it afterwards? I have the same issues, and this workaround solved the problem in all cases, so if it solves it for you, than this might be a duplicate bug.

[Bitterjug (bitterjug)]

Thanks Robert

I tried making an empty selection on the desktop and now my dropdown menus appear. This does look like a duplicate bug.

Mark

[Robert Roth (evfool)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug #695638, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.