Here's an update to comment #146: Having suggested enabling the "login automatically" feature I went back to actually try it. A-Ha it never failed; and then again; now; logging in ASAP after boot never failed either. Obviously I'd made a change along the line that had "fixed" my system.
After digging around the logs and finding nothing; it turned out to be AUDIO. I had plugged in my speakers. Now 16.04 looks for ACTIVE audio sinks and has no default audio output if none can be found. I think it may be the "Ubuntu Drums" playing at the login screen that cause a problem if no audio sink is available. With speakers attached, my system always presents menus; however I login. When "login automatically" is enabled, no "Drums" are played and my system always works with or without speakers attached. [What an excellent bug this is turning out to be] -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to bamf in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1532226 Title: No menu bar in gtk apps on fresh boot Status in Release Notes for Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in bamf package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in bamf source package in Xenial: Fix Committed Bug description: Seen here in fresh 16.04 install using 01/07/16 image. Around 35% of fresh boots or restarts results in no menus in unity panel for most apps, notable exceptions are firefox & thunderbird A log out/in restores functionality. When this occurs there is nothing in any of the ~/.cache/upstart logs of obvious note Test case: fresh install, no changes Do a number of restarts from system settings, using either restart > restart or shutdown > restart, here randomly picked one or the other What happens here: around 35% of the time the login has no menus in the unity panel for most apps. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-release-notes/+bug/1532226/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
