Comment 2 for bug 1170368

HI ,
thanks for your advice.

I did that but it asked for apport to be installed, did that then issues the command again and got : lanchpadlib python module not installed , this functionality not available.

afraid i don't know Ubuntu that well to know how to solve this, please advise .
truied a reboot then repeated the command but same result

 Thanks,
Peter

>________________________________
> From: Christopher Townsend <email address hidden>
>To: <email address hidden>
>Sent: Thursday, 18 April 2013, 18:50
>Subject: [Bug 1170368] Re: download latest updates to beta 2 (18apr13)- no desktop
>
>
>Hi Peter,
>
>Could you switch to a virtual terminal (press Ctrl-Alt-F1) and login to
>the terminal.  From there could you issue "sudo apport-collect 1170368"?
>After getting this info, we may ask for some more info.
>
>Thanks!
>
>** Changed in: unity
>      Status: New => Incomplete
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>Title:
>  download latest updates to beta 2 (18apr13)- no desktop
>
>Status in Unity:
>  Incomplete
>
>Bug description:
>  have been running 13 final beta fine with no major problems.
>
>  have been doing updates as /when they are available.
>
>  however today 18apr 13 , after download and restart get as far as userlogon then no icons/desktop only get the background picture .
>  system reported a crash but no opportunity to add comments, lots of dick activity but no indication report had been sent .
>  several reboots but same result .
>  is it back to the cd cut when beta released or just wait with broken pc until official release ?
>  please advise - and no,  no data dumps available as obviously this is being written on a different pc
>  Thanks
>  Peter
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