Comment 43 for bug 1309025

I started experiencing this error suddenly after a reboot, and couldn't log in in graphic mode anymore. I promptly found this page and tried to enable the trusty-proposed repository to install the fixed version.

The first strange thing that I noticed is that I couldn't find a systemd package in the -proposed package database (Is this normal?). In any case, I decided to install one by one the components that were mentioned in the package description. All of them appeared in trusty-proposed, and I was able to install them.

The problem, however, was that apt said that it needed to remove some packages that were not compatible with the newer ones that I was installing. This included things such as Skype, but also others such as libgl1-mesa-glx. This sounded weird, but I decided to proceed anyway. After doing that and rebooting, I was able to login without getting the original error message, but something was still wrong: many of the Unity components stopped working. The Unity panel is gone, window resizing is not working, window decorations are gone, etc. I also have XMonad installed, which seems to work just fine, and also Gnome with XMonad, with doesn't seem to work at all.

Any ideas on how to fix this?

Thanks