Having a chance to look at things more closely, Unity definitely appears to be running. (By this I mean compiz started with the Unity plugin, and unity-panel-service is running.) Running unity from the command- line stops and restarts everything, but the desktop remains blank.
However, running unity -v (according to the source for unity.cmake this calls compiz with --debug) *does* restore things. I've also gotten a desktop by running compiz --replace. Issues persist upon rebooting, however. As previously mentioned, this includes steps like deleting .cache and .config, resetting things in dconf, and other standard workarounds for blank desktop issues. I also tried purging and reinstalling essentially the entire graphical stack, without success. That suggests the issues might be with the default settings, yet they don't show up on a fresh 16.04 installation on the same platform. I'm stumped and migrating to fresh VMs. I'll keep a copy of the troublesome VM around for a few months in case the issue is confirmed or someone has a bright idea. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1604657 Title: [Regression] Unity shows blank desktop with software renderer To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity/+bug/1604657/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
