[Bug 1535058] Re: applications close instantly when launched from the launcher or dash

[Mark Morris]

Want to mention my struggle to get Unity8 working up up until now. I
still cant install apps but i got a lot of issues:

First Issues,

Login Screen - as soon as i hit enter to login the login box disappeared
and nothing else was happening, after 48 hours of research i realised i
was using nVidia Binary driver, Mir doesnt like it at all, switched to
Xorg open source driver and now i had a desktop.

Second Issue,

No matter what i clicked on it would close instantly, apps etc, to fix
this i did the follow "sudo apt-get install libpam-cgfs" now i could
open system settings, however the browser still crashes on load, but now
actually opens for a few seconds.

I cant install/downloads anything from the app store, i have no terminal
etc any suggestions for this?

This is what i have so far, im a big noob when in comes to linux so im
not sure if this helps anyone.

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Title:
  applications close instantly when launched from the launcher or dash

Status in cgmanager package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid
Status in qtmir package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid
Status in ubuntu-app-launch package in Ubuntu:
  In Progress
Status in unity8 package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid
Status in unity8-desktop-session package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in upstart package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  xenial
  applications close instantly when launched from the launcher or dash
  but... if i launch the apps from a VT (for ex firefox using Xmir or gedit native --), the app loads ok.

  what close instantly means.. it opens the window and then it closes
  instantly in ~0.3s

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