The unity8 crash seems to be a glib fatal error: "No GSettings schemas are installed on the system"
Also supporting this: $ gsettings list-schemas No schemas installed This could also explain why it works on upgrade, if vivid finds and prepares the schemas fine. ** Changed in: unity8 (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed => Incomplete -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to unity8 in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1604421 Title: Unity 8 fails to start on staging (xenial) on the phone when --wipe is used for flashing Status in Canonical System Image: Confirmed Status in unity8 package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: Update: this only happens when --wipe (or --bootstrap) is used for flashing. It is possible to get functional xenial/staging running by doing non-destructive flash update from rc-proposed. Unity 8 fails to start on staging (=xenial + xenial-overlay) on my krillin. unity-system-compositor.log: http://paste.ubuntu.com/20035267/ - shows Opening/Closing/Opening/Closing when starting unity8. unity8.log attached. Using ubuntu-touch/staging/bq-aquaris.en channel on krillin. version_detail: ubuntu=20160719,device=20160606-ab415b2,custom=20160701-981-38-14,version=49 Crash file at http://people.ubuntu.com/~timo- jyrinki/unity8/_usr_bin_unity8.32011.crash Xenial can be flashed on the phone with eg: ubuntu-device-flash touch --channel=ubuntu-touch/staging/ubuntu --developer-mode --password=0000 --wipe --boostrap (ubuntu channel) ubuntu-device-flash touch --channel=ubuntu-touch/staging/bq-aquaris.en --developer-mode --password=0000 --wipe --recovery-image recovery-krillin.img (Bq channel) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/canonical-devices-system-image/+bug/1604421/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp