17.10 Unity is broken after freeze

[JonPaul]

Hi. Laptop froze while in unity session. Could only restart in Ubuntu session or gnome session which are working fine on both xorg and wayland. Have tried reinstalling unity several times but it comes back corrupted. eg. Cannot change any settings in unity-tweak. Have tried deleting relevant files in .config, .compiz and .cache and reinstalling but nothing works. can anyone suggest where I should try next?

[ventrical]

Hi. Laptop froze while in unity session. Could only restart in Ubuntu session or gnome session which are working fine on both xorg and wayland. Have tried reinstalling unity several times but it comes back corrupted. eg. Cannot change any settings in unity-tweak. Have tried deleting relevant files in .config, .compiz and .cache and reinstalling but nothing works. can anyone suggest where I should try next?

Could you give is a hardware list?

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edit" also are you using nvidia drivers or nouveau?
regards..

[JonPaul]

Hi Ventrical

Here it is:

System:    Host: paul-Aspire-E1-571 Kernel: 4.13.0-15-generic x86_64
           bits: 64 gcc: 7.2.0
           Desktop: Gnome 3.26.1 (Gtk 3.22.24-0ubuntu1)
           Distro: Ubuntu Artful Aardvark (development branch)
Machine:   Device: laptop System: Acer product: Aspire E1-571 v: V2.13 serial: N/A
           Mobo: Acer model: EA50_HC_CR v: Type2 - Board Version serial: N/A
           UEFI: Insyde v: V2.13 date: 01/17/2013
Battery    BAT1: charge: 16.3 Wh 100.0% condition: 16.3/47.5 Wh (34%)
           model: SANYO Li_Ion_4000mA status: Full
CPU:       Dual core Intel Core i5-3230M (-HT-MCP-) 
           arch: Ivy Bridge rev.9 cache: 3072 KB
           flags: (lm nx sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx) bmips: 10376
           clock speeds: max: 3200 MHz 1: 2594 MHz 2: 2594 MHz 3: 2594 MHz
           4: 2594 MHz
Graphics:  Card: Intel 3rd Gen Core processor Graphics Controller
           bus-ID: 00:02.0
           Display Server: x11 (X.Org 1.19.4 ) driver: intel
           Resolution: 1366x768@60.01hz
           OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI Intel Ivybridge Mobile
           version: 4.2 Mesa 17.2.2 Direct Render: Yes
Audio:     Card Intel 7 Series/C216 Family High Def. Audio Controller
           driver: snd_hda_intel bus-ID: 00:1b.0
           Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture v: k4.13.0-15-generic
Network:   Card-1: Broadcom Limited NetLink BCM57785 Gigabit Ethernet PCIe
           driver: tg3 v: 3.137 bus-ID: 02:00.0
           IF: enp2s0f0 state: down mac: <filter>
           Card-2: Qualcomm Atheros AR9485 Wireless Network Adapter
           driver: ath9k bus-ID: 03:00.0
           IF: wlp3s0 state: up mac: <filter>
Drives:    HDD Total Size: 1000.2GB (3.4% used)
           ID-1: /dev/sda model: TOSHIBA_HDWM110 size: 1000.2GB
Partition: ID-1: / size: 202G used: 18G (10%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda7
RAID:      No RAID devices: /proc/mdstat, md_mod kernel module present
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 58.0C mobo: N/A
           Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: N/A
Info:      Processes: 365 Uptime: 13:51 Memory: 3477.9/7797.0MB
           Init: systemd runlevel: 5 Gcc sys: 7.2.0
           Client: Shell (bash 4.4.121) inxi: 2.3.37

No funny graphics card - it froze after suspend so I had to do a hard reset. no disk errors found.

I was using lighdm and unity. lightdm goes to a black screen with flashing cursor after the splash screen. had to switch to gdm3
If I select unity-session from login the cursor is a black X. I cannot change the size of the dash panel in either settings or unity-tweak. cannot change the theme. Also the top panel does not have the button to shutdown or logout.... I have tried removing every setting I can find but the dash panel does not return with default icons.... I am baffled

[jbicha]

Unity is broken by a gnome-settings-daemon change. You can try reverting to gnome-settings-daemon 3.26.1-0ubuntu2 or wait for 3.26.1-0ubuntu4 later today.
LP: #1722920

[JonPaul]

Thanks Jeremy. Perhaps it's time for me to move on from Unity.....

[ventrical]

Hi Ventrical

Here it is:

System:    Host: paul-Aspire-E1-571 Kernel: 4.13.0-15-generic x86_64
           bits: 64 gcc: 7.2.0
           Desktop: Gnome 3.26.1 (Gtk 3.22.24-0ubuntu1)
           Distro: Ubuntu Artful Aardvark (development branch)
Machine:   Device: laptop System: Acer product: Aspire E1-571 v: V2.13 serial: N/A
           Mobo: Acer model: EA50_HC_CR v: Type2 - Board Version serial: N/A
           UEFI: Insyde v: V2.13 date: 01/17/2013
Battery    BAT1: charge: 16.3 Wh 100.0% condition: 16.3/47.5 Wh (34%)
           model: SANYO Li_Ion_4000mA status: Full
CPU:       Dual core Intel Core i5-3230M (-HT-MCP-) 
           arch: Ivy Bridge rev.9 cache: 3072 KB
           flags: (lm nx sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx) bmips: 10376
           clock speeds: max: 3200 MHz 1: 2594 MHz 2: 2594 MHz 3: 2594 MHz
           4: 2594 MHz
Graphics:  Card: Intel 3rd Gen Core processor Graphics Controller
           bus-ID: 00:02.0
           Display Server: x11 (X.Org 1.19.4 ) driver: intel
           Resolution: 1366x768@60.01hz
           OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI Intel Ivybridge Mobile
           version: 4.2 Mesa 17.2.2 Direct Render: Yes
Audio:     Card Intel 7 Series/C216 Family High Def. Audio Controller
           driver: snd_hda_intel bus-ID: 00:1b.0
           Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture v: k4.13.0-15-generic
Network:   Card-1: Broadcom Limited NetLink BCM57785 Gigabit Ethernet PCIe
           driver: tg3 v: 3.137 bus-ID: 02:00.0
           IF: enp2s0f0 state: down mac: <filter>
           Card-2: Qualcomm Atheros AR9485 Wireless Network Adapter
           driver: ath9k bus-ID: 03:00.0
           IF: wlp3s0 state: up mac: <filter>
Drives:    HDD Total Size: 1000.2GB (3.4% used)
           ID-1: /dev/sda model: TOSHIBA_HDWM110 size: 1000.2GB
Partition: ID-1: / size: 202G used: 18G (10%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda7
RAID:      No RAID devices: /proc/mdstat, md_mod kernel module present
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 58.0C mobo: N/A
           Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: N/A
Info:      Processes: 365 Uptime: 13:51 Memory: 3477.9/7797.0MB
           Init: systemd runlevel: 5 Gcc sys: 7.2.0
           Client: Shell (bash 4.4.121) inxi: 2.3.37

No funny graphics card - it froze after suspend so I had to do a hard reset. no disk errors found.

I was using lighdm and unity. lightdm goes to a black screen with flashing cursor after the splash screen. had to switch to gdm3
If I select unity-session from login the cursor is a black X. I cannot change the size of the dash panel in either settings or unity-tweak. cannot change the theme. Also the top panel does not have the button to shutdown or logout.... I have tried removing every setting I can find but the dash panel does not return with default icons.... I am baffled

I am getting similar on all my 17.10 non unity installs .. even from the release candidate. Just locks up in plymouth after an update. I even used earlier ISOs, then update/upgrade and plymouth lock-up. It's not a unity issue, but, perhaps in this case it was.

Regards..

[JonPaul]

I am getting similar on all my 17.10 non unity installs .. even from the release candidate. Just locks up in plymouth after an update. I even used earlier ISOs, then update/upgrade and plymouth lock-up. It's not a unity issue, but, perhaps in this case it was.

Regards..

Strange because my ubuntu-session using gdm3 works fine.

[ventrical]

Strange because my ubuntu-session using gdm3 works fine.

Ahh.. I forgot to mention nVidia.

Yes .. it is strange. Perhaps some of my nVidia cards got obsoleted during update. It's happened before.

edit:

I'll check those machines.

if I use the August or Sept 28 ISO I can get a working install but upon update it will lock in Plymouth. Not so in Intel based graphics hardware

[Cheltspy]

lightdm is completely broken after today's update on both x86 and amd64 on intel N3700.

Unity starts okay with gdm3.

[ventrical]

lightdm is completely broken after today's update on both x86 and amd64 on intel N3700.

Unity starts okay with gdm3.

I have unity on lightdm working really well. It's GDM that seems to be sporadic. Noticed a bunch of xmir updates. On one unity based machine it wiped out mouse arrow and now I have an X. If the devs want to kill unity they can go right a ahead.

peace.

regards..