Important Unity components not installed after update-manager -d upgrade
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Unity |
Invalid
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
unity (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
Natty |
Invalid
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
update-manager (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Medium
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Michael Vogt | ||
Natty |
Fix Released
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Medium
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Michael Vogt |
Bug Description
Last Sunday (2011-04-10) I upgraded to Natty with the update-manager (using -d option). Everything went fine as there were no errors reported.
After I restarted my default desktop was Unity (in Maverick I had its default: gnome), and it worked fine, but I discovered some packages were not installed therefore I was missing important Unity functionality.
unity-place-
unity-place-files
indicator-appmenu
The time indicator was also missing.
The result was that my unity after the upgrade did not show the gtk applications' menu in the top panel, I could not find files or applications from the launcher and Firefox 4.0 did not have the application menu displayed on the top panel.
After I installed all missing packages (using the guessing method) everything looked like the Natty Live CD Unity.
Is this a dependency problem? Those packages are optional for Unity, but they should be installed when upgrading if Unity is the new default desktop for upgrades.
Steps to reproduce:
Install maverick
Run update-manager -d
Check installed packages
I think this should be filed on update-manager. Michael?