Unity launcher does not load. Ubuntu-desktop crashes.
On booting the system this morning, the ubuntu desktop loaded without any window decorators and without the unity launcher. Pressing the Super key didn't produce any response. I could not open the terminal using the Ctrl+Alt+T combination. I tried to reinstall unity and ubuntu-desktop through virtual consoles but that didn't help. The system became unusable as there was no way to even logout of the gui session (The menu bar also stopped working). I tried some solutions that I found online:
Enabling unity panel using ccsm: Unity panel was disabled; upon enabling, there were dialog boxes asking for permissions to load OpenGL and many more; agreed to all, but the action of enabling did not stick nor did it change anything.
Removing the .config folder: No change.
Removing .XAuthority folder: No change
Resetting unity: I followed two methods: 1) unity-tweak-tool --reset-unity 2) setsid unity: Both did not work.
I installed xfce4 and gnome-panel to check if they worked fine: Xfce worked gnome didn't.
Following a suggestion in one of the ubuntu forums, I removed /usr/share/
Please help.
System details:
Make and Model: Lenovo Z50-70 with NVidia Graphics card, core i5, 8GB RAM;
uname -a
Linux Enigma 4.4.0-36-generic #55-Ubuntu SMP Thu Aug 11 18:01:55 UTC x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
apt policy unity
unity:
Installed: 7.4.0+16.
Candidate: 7.4.0+16.
Version table:
*** 7.4.0+16.
500 http://
100 /var/lib/
500 http://
(I am unable to copy and paste the output from the terminal. I typed in the above outputs.) Please help.
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