I'm getting no Dash / Launcher after I login. This started after an update through the Software updater. Please help to fix ... I've already lost a day trying different options posted on askubuntu.com. Nothing worked.
Got to the terminal via Ctl + Alt + F1 and logged-in successfully.
Here are the logs:
.xsession-errors
Script for ibus started at run_im.
init: unity-panel-service main process (2315) terminated with status 1
init: indicator-printers main process (2459) terminated with status 1
init: unity-settings-daemon main process (2300) terminated with status 1
init: upstart-dbus-session-bridge main process (2293) terminated with status 1
init: hud main process (2304) killed by TERM signal
init: indicator-bluetooth main process (2446) killed by TERM signal
init: indicator-power main process (2448) killed by TERM signal
init: indicator-datetime main process (2451) killed by TERM signal
init: indicator-sound main process (2453) killed by TERM signal
init: indicator-session main process (2483) killed by TERM signal
init: indicator-application main process (2486) killed by TERM signal
init: Disconnected from notified D-Bus busUPDATE (Jun 8, 2014):
Okay, I have reset unity, but I cannot login normally via the login screen.
Steps I follow:
1. Login screen -> blank ... No dash / no launcher / No Status (Notification) Bar on top
2. Ctrl+Alt+F1 to bash terminal
3. export DISPLAY=:0
4. unity-tweak-tool --reset-unity (This does not complete, blocks on OpenGL)
5. I anyways continue to by doing: Ctrl+Alt+F7.
6. Launcher & Dash look good. But there is (a) No Status / Notification Bar on top
7. Continuing to work this way. Haven't logged out since.6 Answers
I had a similar problem, I solved it by switching in terminal (CTRL+ALT+F1) then removing the configuration file ~/.config/dconf/user like this :
(! this action will remove your gnome 3 settings !)
sudo service lightdm stop
rm ~/.config/dconf/user
sudo service lightdm startFirst, check your machine is fully updated. Open command line (Ctrl + Alt + F1):
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgradeIf you get any errors, run:
sudo apt-get install -fThen rerun to first two commands to ensure no further errors. After that you can try logging in (Ctrl-Alt-F7 to change to you GUI) to see if Unity is now working.
If Unity is still not running, follow these instructions to reset your unity configuration, (from How do I reset my Unity configuration?):
With 14.04 install unity-tweak-tool:
sudo apt-get install unity-tweak-toolThen run the follow command to reset Unity to defaults:
unity-tweak-tool --reset-unityTrying to do this it work very well:
Ctrl+Alt+F1/F2
Enter your login and your password and run the three following commands:
sudo service lightdm stop
rm ~/.config/dconf/user
sudo service lightdm start Its solving the problem in following steps:
1) step-1: $sudo apt-get install unity-tweak-tool
It will complain about 'dpkg'
2) step-2: $sudo dpkg --configure -a
3) step-3: $sudo apt-get install unity-tweak-tool
Hope it will resolve it. Arun Dhwaj
I had a similar issue and I tried almost all solutions listed above. Turns out it was an issue with the permission for home directory. May be an FTP transfer had reset the directory permissions. Below are the commands I used to fix the issue
sudo chown /home/ sudo chown /home//.Xauthority
CTRL-ALT-F1
mv -v ~/.gconf ~/.gconf-old
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mv -v ~/.config/dconf ~/.config/dconf-old
then log off/on
Renames the conf files and makes some new ones.
