[Natty] Unity will start from GDM, not from KDM
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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compiz (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
gdm (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
kde-workspace (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: unity
Unity won't start,
Finally found the reason ;-)
On 5 machines I upgraded from Maverick to Natty, Unity doesn't start on any of them.
However all my machines have both kubuntu-desktop and ubuntu-desktop installed, and use KDM as graphical login manager.
Starting the "Ubuntu" session from KDM will open a session where Unity doesn't start (only desktop background comes up)
Stopping KDM (sudo stop kdm), then starting GDM (sudo start gdm), logging into the "Ubuntu" session from GDM, and then unity works.
This being perfectly reproductible on all machines I tested it on (all upgraded from Maverick to Natty).
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: unity 3.8.10-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic i686
Architecture: i386
CheckboxSubmission: 1ea6109db29b53f
CheckboxSystem: d00f84de8a55581
CompizPlugins: [core,bailer,
Date: Thu Apr 28 17:49:31 2011
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100429)
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=fr_FR:en
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: unity
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-04-03 (25 days ago)
affects: | kdebase-workspace (Ubuntu) → kde-workspace (Ubuntu) |
Thanks for your bug report and help to make ubuntu better.
We base all our session switching on the GDMSESSION variable, this has to be switche to something else in oneiric generic between all DM (even lightdm?).