Lost Menu Bars and Window Borders

[dwdarkstar]

• 10.04 LST
• No mouse at login
• No menu bars top or bottom in desktop
• No max/min border around windows
• Logging in Guest account displays same symptoms

Not sure whats going on. Can't access System Prefs to check resolution or create new user. Any help?

[dannyboy79]

try alt-F2 and type in

metacity --replace

[dwdarkstar]

farstar@go-bot:~$ metacity --replace
metacity: error while loading shared libraries: libvorbis.so.0: cannot dynamically load executable

[dwdarkstar]

Any other thoughts?

[dannyboy79]

Where did you enter that command? Are you able to login to the ubuntu desktop manager or are you only able to login to a tty terminal session?

Are you using compiz?

[dwdarkstar]

The command was issued in terminal. Yes I can login to my desktop, although there is no mouse I can TAB between users and hit ENTER to type my psswd. Once in I created a dummy launcher to get to terminal. I don't believe I'm running compiz as before I posted this thread I searched the forums and tried multiple solutions including this:

cd /usr/bin
sudo ln -s compiz compiz.real
gnome-session-save --logout

There were no errors, however upon logging back in nothing had changed, still no menu bars, no window borders. What else can I try for you?

[dannyboy79]

i'm at a loss. I am not sure as this is way over my head. sorry I couldn't help.

you even created a new user and the same problems exist makes me believe your whole OS is screwed to be honest. Normally things like this can be solved by created a new user because these settings are stored within the users home directory but apparently these problems are elsewhere.

[dwdarkstar]

I haven't tried new user creation yet because I don't know how to do it with out the GUI in System-Administration-Users, which I can't access. Is there a way to do it in terminal?

[dannyboy79]

here'a a guide for how to do it from a terminal
http://www.dscripts.net/2010/08/14/h...sing-terminal/

[dwdarkstar]

I created a new user but upon logging in under that account the same symptoms persisted unchanged.

I am hesitant to accept the diagnosis of irreversible OS damage as many GUI functions remain. However it does not seem to be a hardware issue as the Vista partition functions normally, again suggesting a corruption of 10.04. In the absence of further suggestions my next thought is whether or not I can upgrade my 10.04 to the latest LST version via bootable disk and maintain all of the data presently held in the 10.04 OS. Any thoughts on this?