Daniel, I haven't submitted a bug for Ubuntu before so I am unsure of the process. I hope its ok to email you directly with a response to your inquiry. Just to clarify I was not seeing a login screen. Just so you know I had been using Gnome desktop for quite a long time since 11.04 I believe, and I upgraded to 11.10 and then to 12.04. I never had any issues but I am guessing this is why I am having trouble now. I had some problems with grub due to a failed hard drive. I also had some trouble with automatic updates causing errors as recent as mid July although I can't really specify their cause as I didn't dig into them. I am guessing there are logs somewhere that might be parsed but I don't know if its worth your time for these xml parser errors. Due to the grub issue and the other errors I had some desktop environment issues and started playing with settings and installed and removed various packages. I made many changes and lost the ability to log in to my system. I used chroot from live usb to attempt to correct my problems but I wasn't successful. When I finally figured out that if I waited at the flashing screen that was displaying "Stopping the kernel and mountall... something plymouth" and used the Ctrl Alt F1 or F2 I could drop to a command prompt and use StartX to load an unstable desktop. At that point when I was trying to get a login screen to display instead of the flashing screen I tried to run the "unity --reset" command and got the xml parser errors. I had to install Kubuntu to get a login screen then I was able to login and update some packages to get a mostly stable desktop environment although my system probably won't be stable until I reload the OS.
I just wanted to submit the bug because the message from compiz said if you see this you probably should file a bug. I know from previous testing experience that sometimes when systems are all messed up like mine is you can get a lot of strange errors. I also know that its best to let the devs or someone knowledgable decide whether the report of the error can be used for future fixes. Let me know if I can attempt to clarify anything. Thanks, JR On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 9:13 PM, Daniel van Vugt < [email protected]> wrote: > Those warnings are mostly normal. Although the regex.xml warning looks > like a simple failure of the XML parser to handle UTF-8 encoding of > Ukrainian. But that should be harmless. > > Could you please clarify what the main problem is? Is it "unable to > login regularly instead I have a flashing screen with various errors > like stopping kernel and mountall stopping plymouth etc" ? > > ** Changed in: unity (Ubuntu) > Status: New => Incomplete > > -- > You received this bug notification because you are subscribed to the bug > report. > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1030445 > > Title: > unity reset results in compiz error > > Status in “unity” package in Ubuntu: > Incomplete > > Bug description: > lsb_release -rd > > Description: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS > Release: 12.04 > > Unable to locate package pkgname > > > I am attempting to fix desktop issues causing my Ubuntu desktop to be > blank. I run the command unity --reset and get output > > Warning: Unity currently default profile, so swithching to metacity > while resetting the values > unity-panel-service: no process found > checking if settings need to be migrated ...no > checking if internal files need to be migrated ... no > Backend :gconf > Integration :true > Profile :unity > Adding plugins > /usr/share/compiz/regex.xml:63:parser error : Premature end of data in > tag long line 63 > <long xml:lang="uk"> (some words in russian language) > > > /usr/share/compiz/regex.xml:63:parser error : Premature end of data in > tag plug in line 3 > <long xml:lang="uk"> (some words in russian language) > > /usr/share/compiz/regex.xml:63:parser error : Premature end of data in > tag compiz line 2 > <long xml:lang="uk"> (some words in russian language) > > > Initializing core options...done > compiz (core) - Warn: failed to receive ConfigureNotify event on > 0x1000004 > > compiz (core) - Warn: failed to receive ConfigureNotify event on > 0x22000d6 > > compiz (core) - Warn: failed to receive ConfigureNotify event on > 0xa00004 > > compiz (core) - Warn: unhandled ConfigureNotify on 0x300009e! > > compiz (core) - Warn: this should never happen. you should probably > file a bug about this. > > > compiz (core) - Warn: unhandled ConfigureNotify on 0x30000a1! > > compiz (core) - Warn: this should never happen. you should probably > file a bug about this. > > > compiz (core) - Warn: unhandled ConfigureNotify on 0x30000a4! > > compiz (core) - Warn: this should never happen. you should probably > file a bug about this. > > > I would expect unity to reset and be able to use my desktop instead my > desktop is blank with only firefox and terminal shortcut. I am unable > to login regularly instead I have a flashing screen with various > errors like stopping kernel and mountall stopping plymouth etc. After > a time I get this to stop using ctrl alt f1 and can use startx to get > to incorrectly operating desktop. > > This began with update failures about 10 days ago resulting in ubuntu > system errors. I had a hdd fail and grub was reloaded causing me to > not be able to use gnome desktop. > > To manage notifications about this bug go to: > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity/+bug/1030445/+subscriptions > -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1030445 Title: unity reset results in compiz error To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity/+bug/1030445/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
