On 10 January 2011 09:14, Barry Drake <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, 2011-01-09 at 20:27 +0000, John Stevenson wrote: > > > > Have you tried logging in to the Ubuntu classic desktop, from the > > login screen? This may give an idea if this is a unity problem or a > > wider gnome problem. > > I have now. When I log in to classic desktop, everything's fine. When > I log in to Ubuntu (Unity) desktop, it's broken, but not quite in the > same way as when I set it up automatically to start with Unity. Gnome > menus on top left panel don't appear until my mouse cursor is on the top > panel, and then they don't work. The menus and icons to the right show, > but don't work. Only way out is with 'shutdown now' in the terminal > which I have as a desktop item. It has to be a Unity problem. >
I have upgraded all packages as of 10am this morning and Unity is still working for me. The problem with the menus (indicators) in the top bar not showing up is a bug that has been reported<https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity/+bug/693073>. Usually if I click on the desktop then click on the menus they then start working. Failing that, if I have a terminal window open I reset Unity with the following command unity --reset > Just wondering: this is very unlikely, but could it be possible that > this bug only shows up on a new install that hasn't gone through all the > updates as they happened? During the first update, I do get a dialogue > box saying it can't do a full upgrade, do I want to do a partial > upgrade, and later it reports that libc6 and libc6-dev are broken, but > re-installing both of these doesn't seem to be a problem, and they are > used by most apps anyhow. Is it worth making that suggestion on the bug > report? > > Regards, Barry Drake. > Whilst installing alpha1 release and trying to do updates now may be problematic, I'd be a little surprised if using a daily build images<http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-live/current/>would have the same problem. Try using a daily build image <http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-live/current/> without doing any updates, or try doing a dist-upgrade first (sudo apt-get dist-upgrade). If you are having problems then yes, report them as bugs. The biggest challenge I find in reporting bugs is knowing what to report them against. I do find the bug reporting tool ubuntu-bug very useful and have used ubuntu-bug unity a few times to compile a bug report for me. Thank you -- John Stevenson Lean Agile Consultant / Coach jr0cket.com | leanagilemachine.com
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