Comment 6 for bug 972721

It's not a critical issue, by all means work on other things first. Please leave it open, and it might be addressable by a bug fix later, or closed if it becomes moot with gsettings.

The case is when a user's session is broken and they *cannot* login successfully to unity or gnome, so they are logging in on a vt or via ssh, and trying to repair whatever damage there is to their dotfiles. The problem is not that it tries to relaunch unity (per se), the problem is that it won't reset the configuration if it can't also launch it.

The user *is* logged in, but only via ssh or vt.