no launcher, no dash, no unity, how to get back to my desktop?

Posted by Numan Syed on Ask Ubuntu See other posts from Ask Ubuntu or by Numan Syed
Published on 2013-11-10T07:55:35Z Indexed on 2013/11/10 10:16 UTC
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FYI, I have tried these, but none worked as of yet! Please help! I must not want to reinstall Ubuntu precise:

Is there any other way to find a solution, any help is highly appreciated! Please do ask for any further info u may need to point me to a better direction.

  1. Edit: I have still the opportunity to use ctrl+Alt+T for the terminal. And from there I used firefox & to get the browser on.
  2. Edit 2: Tried to find more; found more explained situation
    • http://askubuntu.com/q/260578/176470.
  3. Edit 3:@Adithya: tried that no luck! Here is what my terminal gave me so far...

    [1447:22] (~) bash $ unity --reset
    WARNING: Unity currently default profile, so switching to metacity while resetting the values
    unity-panel-service: no process found
    Checking if settings need to be migrated ...no
    Checking if internal files need to be migrated ...no
    Backend     : gconf
    Integration : true
    Profile     : unity
    Adding plugins
    Initializing core options...done
    compiz (core) - Warn: failed to receive ConfigureNotify event on 0x1600004
    
    compiz (core) - Warn: failed to receive ConfigureNotify event on 0x30000b8
    
    compiz (core) - Warn: failed to receive ConfigureNotify event on 0x2c00fc1
    
    Initializing composite options...done
    Initializing opengl options...done
    Initializing decor options...done
    Initializing vpswitch options...done
    Initializing snap options...done
    Initializing mousepoll options...done
    Initializing resize options...done
    Initializing place options...done
    Initializing move options...done
    Initializing wall options...done
    Initializing grid options...done
    Initializing session options...done
    Initializing gnomecompat options...done
    Initializing animation options...done
    Initializing fade options...done
    compiz (core) - Error: Couldn't load plugin '/usr/lib/compiz/libunitymtgrabhandles.so' : /usr/lib/compiz/libunitymtgrabhandles.so: undefined symbol: _ZN10CompOption7setNameEPKcNS_4TypeE
    compiz (core) - Error: Couldn't load plugin 'unitymtgrabhandles'
    Initializing workarounds options...done
    Initializing scale options...done
    compiz (expo) - Warn: failed to bind image to texture
    Initializing expo options...done
    Initializing ezoom options...done
    compiz (core) - Error: Couldn't load plugin '/usr/lib/compiz/libunityshell.so' : /usr/lib/compiz/libunityshell.so: undefined symbol: _ZN10CompOption7setNameEPKcNS_4TypeE
    compiz (core) - Error: Couldn't load plugin 'unityshell'
    compiz (core) - Warn: unhandled ConfigureNotify on 0xc000a0!
    compiz (core) - Warn: this should never happen. you should probably file a bug about this.
    compiz (core) - Warn: unhandled ConfigureNotify on 0xc000a3!
    compiz (core) - Warn: this should never happen. you should probably file a bug about this.
    compiz (core) - Warn: unhandled ConfigureNotify on 0xc000a6!
    compiz (core) - Warn: this should never happen. you should probably file a bug about this.
    Initializing addhelper options...done
    Initializing animationaddon options...done
    Initializing annotate options...done
    Initializing bench options...done
    Initializing blur options...done
    Initializing clone options...done
    Initializing colorfilter options...done
    Initializing commands options...done
    Initializing crashhandler options...done
    Initializing cube options...done
    Initializing cubeaddon options...done
    Initializing extrawm options...done
    Initializing fadedesktop options...done
    Initializing firepaint options...done
    Initializing group options...done
    Initializing imgjpeg options...done
    Initializing kdecompat options...done
    Initializing loginout options...done
    Initializing mag options...done
    Initializing maximumize options...done
    Initializing mblur options...done
    Initializing neg options...done
    Initializing notification options...done
    Initializing obs options...done
    Initializing opacify options...done
    Initializing put options...done
    Initializing reflex options...done
    Initializing resizeinfo options...done
    Initializing ring options...done
    Initializing rotate options...done
    Initializing scaleaddon options...done
    Initializing scalefilter options...done
    Initializing screenshot options...done
    Initializing shelf options...done
    Initializing shift options...done
    Initializing showdesktop options...done
    Initializing showmouse options...done
    Initializing splash options...done
    Initializing staticswitcher options...done
    Initializing switcher options...done
    Initializing td options...done
    Initializing thumbnail options...done
    Initializing trailfocus options...done
    Initializing unitymtgrabhandles options...done
    Initializing unityshell options...done
    Initializing wallpaper options...done
    Initializing water options...done
    Initializing widget options...done
    Initializing winrules options...done
    Initializing wobbly options...done
    Setting Update "main_menu_key"
    Setting Update "run_key"
    

    Anything suspicious herein?

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