This was fixed by bringing up a terminal from within the crippled desktop, and
then executing:
unity --reset
The Window Manager started working correctly.
Upon reboot, the machine booted to X and showed the graphical login
screen.
** Changed in: xorg (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Invalid
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1074486
Title:
Window Manager Decorations and Toolbars do not appear, ALT-TAB does
not work
Status in “xorg” package in Ubuntu:
Invalid
Bug description:
This is a clean install on a new machine.
The machine does not have a CD/DVD drive and was not able to boot from
USB using the 12.10 Desktop installer.
Therefore I installed 12.04 from USB and immediately performed apt-get
dist-upgrade to 12.10.
The machine boots to a console (tty1) rather than an X screen. If I
start X manually via "startx", the desktop loads a "blank" desktop.
The power bar and toolbar at the top don't appear. However if I
right-click I can create folders and from there launch the file
explorer. From this I can run individual gnome programs fine
however they do not show the normal window decorations (minimize,
maximize, close), and they cannot be dragged.
So it seems as if some basic package or configuration was not
installed by ubuntu-desktop. I believe that this weird window
manager behaviour stems from the same root cause as the machine not
booting to X.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
Package: xorg 1:7.7+1ubuntu4
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-17.28-generic 3.5.5
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-17-generic x86_64
.tmp.unity.support.test.0:
ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu3
Architecture: amd64
CompizPlugins: No value set for
`/apps/compiz-1/general/screen0/options/active_plugins'
CompositorRunning: compiz
Date: Fri Nov 2 22:32:11 2012
DistUpgraded: Fresh install
DistroCodename: quantal
DistroVariant: ubuntu
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
ExtraDebuggingInterest: Yes
GraphicsCard:
Intel Corporation 3rd Gen Core processor Graphics Controller [8086:0166]
(rev 09) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
Subsystem: Samsung Electronics Co Ltd Device [144d:c0d3]
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64
(20120822.4)
MachineType: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD. 900X3C/900X3D/900X4C/900X4D
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.5.0-17-generic
root=UUID=a73bc3cd-cb91-4ea9-8512-b6deb5a86696 ro text
SourcePackage: xorg
Symptom: display
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
dmi.bios.date: 09/19/2012
dmi.bios.vendor: Phoenix Technologies Ltd.
dmi.bios.version: P02ABK
dmi.board.asset.tag: Base Board Asset Tag
dmi.board.name: NP900X4C-A04HK
dmi.board.vendor: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
dmi.board.version: FAB1
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: No Asset Tag
dmi.chassis.type: 9
dmi.chassis.vendor: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
dmi.chassis.version: 0.1
dmi.modalias:
dmi:bvnPhoenixTechnologiesLtd.:bvrP02ABK:bd09/19/2012:svnSAMSUNGELECTRONICSCO.,LTD.:pn900X3C/900X3D/900X4C/900X4D:pvr0.1:rvnSAMSUNGELECTRONICSCO.,LTD.:rnNP900X4C-A04HK:rvrFAB1:cvnSAMSUNGELECTRONICSCO.,LTD.:ct9:cvr0.1:
dmi.product.name: 900X3C/900X3D/900X4C/900X4D
dmi.product.version: 0.1
dmi.sys.vendor: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
version.compiz: compiz 1:0.9.8.4-0ubuntu2
version.ia32-libs: ia32-libs N/A
version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.39-0ubuntu1
version.libgl1-mesa-dri: libgl1-mesa-dri 9.0-0ubuntu1
version.libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental: libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental N/A
version.libgl1-mesa-glx: libgl1-mesa-glx 9.0-0ubuntu1
version.xserver-xorg-core: xserver-xorg-core 2:1.13.0-0ubuntu6
version.xserver-xorg-input-evdev: xserver-xorg-input-evdev 1:2.7.3-0ubuntu2
version.xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver-xorg-video-ati N/A
version.xserver-xorg-video-intel: xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.20.9-0ubuntu2
version.xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau N/A
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