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No launcher after upgrade to 11.10

Asked by Andy Scott

I have upgrades to 11.10 from 11.04 via update manager, all was working fine until I came to log on again, now I have no side bar launcher and no icons top right of window i.e: network, battery etc. file, edit etc on the left are all still there. this has been reported by another #174539.

Works fine as Guest

Please help !

Andy.

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Eliah Kagan (degeneracypressure) said : 		#1

For everyone's convenience, here's a link to the other related question referred to in the description here:
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/174539

@Andy Scott
Can you provide the information I requested there?

Does the Super (Windows) key make the launcher appear?

Does Alt+F2 have any effect?

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Andy Scott (andy-scott14) said : 		#2

No, Super key & Alt + F2 have no effect.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#3

Open a terminal and run:

unity --replace

Does it run ok?

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Andy Scott (andy-scott14) said : 		#4

ran unity--replace in terminal and got 'command not found'

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Eliah Kagan (degeneracypressure) said : 		#5

You left out the space between unity and --replace.

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Andy Scott (andy-scott14) said : 		#6

Everything runs fine in 2D but not in 3D, I have ran the following and it seems should run 3D ok ?

andy@andy-Inspiron-910:~$ /usr/lib/nux/unity_support_test -p
OpenGL vendor string: Tungsten Graphics, Inc
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa DRI Intel(R) 945GME x86/MMX/SSE2
OpenGL version string: 1.4 Mesa 7.11

Not software rendered: yes
Not blacklisted: yes
GLX fbconfig: yes
GLX texture from pixmap: yes
GL npot or rect textures: yes
GL vertex program: yes
GL fragment program: yes
GL vertex buffer object: yes
GL framebuffer object: yes
GL version is 1.4+: yes

Unity 3D supported: yes
andy@andy-Inspiron-910:~$

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Andy Scott (andy-scott14) said : 		#7

Ran unity --replace in terminal. it runs (in terminal) then stops nothing happens so I close terminal and get 'there is still a process running in this terminal. closing the terminal will kill it' but nothing happens !

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Andy Scott (andy-scott14) said : 		#8

I have give up on this - using Gnome 3 shell instead. !

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BlueJoe (franz-em) said : 		#9

I have the same problem, I think, but cannot find a solution.

Can you tell me how to use Gnome 3 shell?

Franz

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Eliah Kagan (degeneracypressure) said : 		#10

To use the GNOME 3 Shell in Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot, install the package called gnome-shell. Then, at the graphical login screen, click the gear icon and select GNOME.

Hopefully I (or someone) will post again soon with further suggestions about how to solve this problem.

Does anyone know if there are any bugs reported for this? (https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs)

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#11

sudo apt-get -y install gnome-shell

Then log off and select gnome-shell as your session

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BlueJoe (franz-em) said : 		#12

Thanks, this works fine.

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