no launcher, no dash, no unity, how to get back to my desktop?
- by Numan Syed
FYI, I have tried these, but none worked as of yet! Please help! I must not want to reinstall Ubuntu precise:
AskUbuntu:Unity Launcher missing
AskUbuntu: Unity doesn't load
Youtube:Restore missing launcher
AskUbuntu:Unity 3D no longer works!
Is there any other way to find a solution, any help is highly appreciated!
Please do ask for any further info u may need to point me to a better direction.
Edit: I have still the opportunity to use ctrl+Alt+T for the terminal. And from there I used firefox & to get the browser on.
Edit 2: Tried to find more; found more explained situation
http://askubuntu.com/q/260578/176470.
Edit 3:@Adithya: tried that no luck! Here is what my terminal gave me so far...
[1447:22] (~) bash $ unity --reset
WARNING: Unity currently default profile, so switching to metacity while resetting the values
unity-panel-service: no process found
Checking if settings need to be migrated ...no
Checking if internal files need to be migrated ...no
Backend : gconf
Integration : true
Profile : unity
Adding plugins
Initializing core options...done
compiz (core) - Warn: failed to receive ConfigureNotify event on 0x1600004
compiz (core) - Warn: failed to receive ConfigureNotify event on 0x30000b8
compiz (core) - Warn: failed to receive ConfigureNotify event on 0x2c00fc1
Initializing composite options...done
Initializing opengl options...done
Initializing decor options...done
Initializing vpswitch options...done
Initializing snap options...done
Initializing mousepoll options...done
Initializing resize options...done
Initializing place options...done
Initializing move options...done
Initializing wall options...done
Initializing grid options...done
Initializing session options...done
Initializing gnomecompat options...done
Initializing animation options...done
Initializing fade options...done
compiz (core) - Error: Couldn't load plugin '/usr/lib/compiz/libunitymtgrabhandles.so' : /usr/lib/compiz/libunitymtgrabhandles.so: undefined symbol: _ZN10CompOption7setNameEPKcNS_4TypeE
compiz (core) - Error: Couldn't load plugin 'unitymtgrabhandles'
Initializing workarounds options...done
Initializing scale options...done
compiz (expo) - Warn: failed to bind image to texture
Initializing expo options...done
Initializing ezoom options...done
compiz (core) - Error: Couldn't load plugin '/usr/lib/compiz/libunityshell.so' : /usr/lib/compiz/libunityshell.so: undefined symbol: _ZN10CompOption7setNameEPKcNS_4TypeE
compiz (core) - Error: Couldn't load plugin 'unityshell'
compiz (core) - Warn: unhandled ConfigureNotify on 0xc000a0!
compiz (core) - Warn: this should never happen. you should probably file a bug about this.
compiz (core) - Warn: unhandled ConfigureNotify on 0xc000a3!
compiz (core) - Warn: this should never happen. you should probably file a bug about this.
compiz (core) - Warn: unhandled ConfigureNotify on 0xc000a6!
compiz (core) - Warn: this should never happen. you should probably file a bug about this.
Initializing addhelper options...done
Initializing animationaddon options...done
Initializing annotate options...done
Initializing bench options...done
Initializing blur options...done
Initializing clone options...done
Initializing colorfilter options...done
Initializing commands options...done
Initializing crashhandler options...done
Initializing cube options...done
Initializing cubeaddon options...done
Initializing extrawm options...done
Initializing fadedesktop options...done
Initializing firepaint options...done
Initializing group options...done
Initializing imgjpeg options...done
Initializing kdecompat options...done
Initializing loginout options...done
Initializing mag options...done
Initializing maximumize options...done
Initializing mblur options...done
Initializing neg options...done
Initializing notification options...done
Initializing obs options...done
Initializing opacify options...done
Initializing put options...done
Initializing reflex options...done
Initializing resizeinfo options...done
Initializing ring options...done
Initializing rotate options...done
Initializing scaleaddon options...done
Initializing scalefilter options...done
Initializing screenshot options...done
Initializing shelf options...done
Initializing shift options...done
Initializing showdesktop options...done
Initializing showmouse options...done
Initializing splash options...done
Initializing staticswitcher options...done
Initializing switcher options...done
Initializing td options...done
Initializing thumbnail options...done
Initializing trailfocus options...done
Initializing unitymtgrabhandles options...done
Initializing unityshell options...done
Initializing wallpaper options...done
Initializing water options...done
Initializing widget options...done
Initializing winrules options...done
Initializing wobbly options...done
Setting Update "main_menu_key"
Setting Update "run_key"
Anything suspicious herein?