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unity8-desktop-session package

  1. Bug #1537389
  2. Comment #20

Comment 20 for bug 1537389

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TenLeftFingers (tenleftfingers) wrote : Re: The Desktop Never Loads and just stays on a black screen

I have the same configuration as the OP it seems so if they have abandoned the report I am happy to take over. The error in the log was: Failed to initialize EGL

I have a mobile AMD GPU with open source drivers: Gallium 0.4 on AMD RV620
Full unity 8 log here: http://paste.ubuntu.com/16581290/

The comment suggesting $ sudo sysctl restart lightdm
fails with
sysctl: cannot stat /proc/sys/restart: No such file or directory
sysctl: cannot stat /proc/sys/lightdm: No such file or directory

Switching TTYs and back again doesn't help. I still have a completely black screen.