For me the problem went away after I reinstalled "gnome-desktop environment" and "ubuntu-desktop"; initially, metacity was complaining about a file inside $HOME/.config/metacity/, which wasn't there to begin with.
-- metacity crashes on login - no window manager https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/559111 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to metacity in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
