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Unity, screwup help!!!

Bug #674299 reported by Hidden_Cat

This bug report was converted into a question: question #133728: Unity, screwup help!!!.

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Bug Description

Hello, I have been trying out different version of ubuntu for a couple of years now. very interesting stuff.
Anyway, I installed ubuntu 10.10 x64 on my AMD Laptop. Works good for the most part.
I decided to monkey around and now I regret it. I really liked the new unity concept so I downloaded the unity packages and now when I boot my computer I can't do anything it's frozen. I have over 100 tabs of things open in Firefox and chrome, work related. I need to fix this rather than doing a clean install. I can't lose my work.

I also had Docky installed.

I ran ubuntu in safe mode, booted in no graphics
I ran a package repair thingy
and reset graphics to their default.
Please give me advice quickly because I'm real tired and after trying to recover I got it to boot somewhat but no top bar and I opened Firefox and chrome but I can't switch windows and everytime I click on it in the docklet it opens a few windows instead of switching it, please help hurry.

Curtis Hovey (sinzui)
affects: launchpad → unity
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Noel J. Bergman (noeljb) wrote :

Hidden_Cat, I can't help you with the Unity part, but I believe that you can salvage your firefox and chromium browser states by copying ~/.mozilla, ~/.cache/chromium and ~/.config/chromium.

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Didier Roche-Tolomelli (didrocks) wrote :

Well, that's not really a bug but a support question (the fact that unity doesn't start on some hardware is known and we will try to fix that for maverick). You should ask this kind of question on a forum. I'll turn this bug report as a question to continue the discussion.

Are you using autologin? I mean, do you have the list of user showing before unity is starting? If so, once you click on your user, please choose "ubuntu desktop edition" on the dropdown list.
If autologin is enabled, what you should do it it to start in failsafe mode and choose "get a terminal" (or a similar option, I don't remember the wording) and then edit /etc/gdm/custom.conf (with # nano /etc/gdm/custom.conf) and remove everything in it so that you have at the end:

[daemon]
DefaultSession=gnome

Then save the file and restart.

Changed in unity:
status: New → Invalid
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Hidden_Cat (teztnoone) wrote :

It is set to auto login, I think I encountered this problem because I forgot to disable Docky before I rebooted with united enabled.

Please describe & explain each command I should type because I'm not very good at the terminal.

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Hidden_Cat (teztnoone) wrote :

before I rebooted with unity enabled.

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Didier Roche-Tolomelli (didrocks) wrote :

please, continue the discussion on the opened linked question (see the link on the top of the page) to avoid sending a bunch of email to people.

I've answered you there.

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