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unity8-desktop-session package

  1. Bug #1537389
  2. Comment #5

Comment 5 for bug 1537389

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Wieke Kanters (kantersw) wrote : Re: The Desktop Never Loads and just stays on a black screen

I think this bug affects me as well.

It seems that the system doesn't switch to tty8 properly. If desktop fails to load I can sometimes get it to appear by first switching to tty1 then tty8. A bit more reliable way seems to switch to tty1 and delete ~/.cache before logging into unity8.