Intermittent inability to popup menus in top panel
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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unity (Ubuntu) |
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Bug Description
Binary package hint: unity
Intermittently clicking (right or left) on an icon (e.g. me menu) in the tray shows a small highlight (with circular corners) around the icon that has been clicked but the associated menu does not appear. This appears to affect all icons on the top panel as well as any application menu entries that are currently on the panel.
The problem persists for an indeterminate period of time (not insignificant, at least 1 minute) before 'going away' (i.e. clicking on items in the panel again produces a popup menu as per expected behaviour.
The problem seems to be more apparent immediately after login (although I have logged in and been able to access them immediately) and persists for a period of time. Once it has gone away, it doesn't appear to return for the rest of the session.
Occurs using Natty daily build 30/12/2010.
Also began occurring on Natty Alpha after all latest updates were applied on 30/12/2010.
"lsb_release -rd":
Description: Ubuntu natty (development branch)
Release: 11.04
"apt-cache policy packagename":
unity:
Installed: 3.2.8-0ubuntu1
Candidate: 3.2.8-0ubuntu1
Version table:
*** 3.2.8-0ubuntu1 0
500 http://
100 /var/lib/
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: unity 3.2.8-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 2.6.37-11-generic i686
Architecture: i386
CompizPlugins: No value set for `/apps/
Date: Fri Dec 31 05:15:13 2010
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Alpha i386 (20101230)
LiveMediaBuild_: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Alpha i386 (20101230)
MachineType: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. A8Le
PciDisplay: 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:2a02] (rev 03) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LC_MESSAGES=
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcKernelCmdLine: noprompt cdrom-detect/
ProcVersionSign
RelatedPackageV
xserver-xorg 1:7.5+6ubuntu6
libgl1-mesa-glx 7.9+repack-1ubuntu3
libdrm2 2.4.22-2ubuntu1
xserver-
xserver-
SourcePackage: unity
XorgConf: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/etc/X11/
dmi.bios.date: 10/25/2007
dmi.bios.vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
dmi.bios.version: 203
dmi.board.
dmi.board.name: A8Le
dmi.board.vendor: ASUSTeK Computer Inc.
dmi.board.version: 1.0
dmi.chassis.
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: ASUSTeK Computer Inc.
dmi.chassis.
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAmerican
dmi.product.name: A8Le
dmi.product.
dmi.sys.vendor: ASUSTeK Computer Inc.
glxinfo: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
system: distro = Ubuntu, architecture = i686, kernel = 2.6.37-11-generic
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.