The fix in post #7 worked for me as well. However, it seemed to change my grub background to a debian one. Reinstalling ubuntu-desktop and gnome-desktop-environment installed some key gnome and compiz components that had been removed for some reason.
The fix in post #7 worked for me as well. However, it seemed to change my grub background to a debian one. Reinstalling ubuntu-desktop and gnome-desktop- environment installed some key gnome and compiz components that had been removed for some reason.