Desktop fails to start properly after 14.04 > 14.10
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Unity |
Expired
|
Undecided
|
Unassigned | ||
unity (Ubuntu) |
Expired
|
Undecided
|
Unassigned | ||
upstart (Ubuntu) |
Expired
|
Undecided
|
Unassigned |
Bug Description
Yesterday I upgraded my laptop from 14.04 to 14.10 - after the upgrade, when I logged in, I saw Unity on the left with the icons I expected, and the bar across the top, however the time and date, network indicator icon, sound icon, etc were missing.. Clicking on any of the icons in Unity didn't load anything... Couldn't load the dash.. Keyboard shortcuts such as ctrl+alt+t failed to load the terminal.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.10
Package: upstart 1.13.1-0ubuntu4
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 3.16.0-12-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.14.7-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Sep 4 10:30:43 2014
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-06-29 (66 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64 (20140417)
ProcEnviron:
TERM=screen-
PATH=(custom, no user)
XDG_RUNTIME_
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: upstart
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UpstartBugCategory: Session
UpstartRunningS
UpstartRunningS
UpstartRunningS
mtime.conffile.
mtime.conffile.
mtime.conffile.
information type: | Private → Private Security |
information type: | Private Security → Public |
Thanks for reporting. Please modify /etc/X11/ Xsession. d/99upstart as mentioned on irc and change the STARTUP variable to:
STARTUP="upstart --user --debug 1>&2"
Then, logout and:
- login via console
- rm ~/.xsession-errors
- login graphically
- attach .xsession-errors
It doesn't appear that there is an issue with Upstart itself here but the .xsession-errors should give us further details.
What would be interesting to know is whether the graphical session experience is correct for a different / newly-created user on your system.