Cinnamon DE won't load?

[ELD]

I just upgraded to 13.04 now it's it's at least in Beta to test.

Cinnamon no longer loads, any idea how I can begin to trouble shoot this/any one else had the problem?

[Redalien0304]

1st of did you use Cinnamon Stable? Try using Cinnamon nightly is what worked for me not cinnamon stable.

https://launchpad.net/~gwendal-lebih...nnamon-nightly

[jbicha]

What PPAs are you using? Did you look in your display manager logs (LightDM still uses ~/.xsession-errors while GDM uses ~/.cache/gdm/session.log)?

[deadflowr]

Having perused this thread, I decided to take a look at the cinnamon I have installed.
I installed through the repos, so whatever version is what's in there.

Same thing as OP, no desktop.

So I investigated further and noticed that the output for my xsession-errors kept listing caribou as not existing.

I remember that a few days ago, I ran an autoremove. So I looked at the /var/log/apt/history.log file, and lo and behold, it list the caribou packages as part of the removed.

So I simply installed caribou, and all is, so far, right as rain.

[ELD]

What exactly is caribou?

[deadflowr]

What exactly is caribou?

It's just an on screen keyboard app, but it uses a couple dependencies which are probably important to something like cinnamon.(My guess)

[ELD]

Hmm i'm guessing the Ubuntu package for cinnamon needs to be updated to depend on it then since its not in anymore by default?