13.10 daily image - Unity not launching after upgrade

[Phill Whiteside]

Following on from what Nicholas said, when upgrading a test ISO, please be
aware of possibility of the upgrade not being fully sync'd and asking to
remove things, more details can be found at
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1343434

Regards,

Phill.

On 15 July 2013 16:40, Nicholas Skaggs <nicholas.skaggs at canonical.com>wrote:

>  Vasudevan, this is in a virtualbox image right? And your using the
> 64-bit daily saucy image? Can you give us anymore details about your setup
> that might help? If your encountering issues, you can workaround them a
> couple ways.
>
> 1) Use a non-unity desktop enviroment. If something in unity is broken,
> use lxde, xfce, or something else in the interim.
> 2) Stay on an older image and don't upgrade until your bug is fixed. Make
> sure you file it, but if your using a vm, you should be able to clone it so
> you have a working machine that you can use and a spare test version to
> check and track progress on the bug preventing you from upgrading.
>
> Nicholas
>
>
> On 07/12/2013 06:10 PM, Vasudevan Kottilil wrote:
>
> Thanks, Phil; Tried update/upgrade again today and still can not boot/log
> into 13.10 after upgrade. During upgrade, saw a bunch of errors like these
> "(gtk-update-icon-cache-3.0:5767): GdkPixbuf-WARNING **: Cannot open
> pixbuf loader module file
> '/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gdk-pixbuf-2.0/2.10.0/loaders.cache': No such
> file or directory
> This likely means that your installation is broken."
> Than I  reinstalled the older image from dvd and did an update/upgrade;got
> the same errors.
> Vasudevan Kottilil
> On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 9:18 AM, Phill Whiteside <PhillW at ubuntu.com>wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>>  update & upgrade will indeed up date an installed system, if you want
>> to refresh your ISO for installation then use zsync [1].
>>
>>  Regards,
>>
>>  Phill.
>> 1.
>> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/Activities/Classroom/Saucy#Introduction_to_QA_.2BAC8_Testing
>>
>>   On 12 July 2013 17:15, Vasudevan Kottilil <vasudevank2 at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>>  As a follow up, do we have to download new iso and re install to
>>> reflect the change over from unity to mir? Usually I apt-get upgrade to
>>> refresh the daily image.
>>> Thanks,
>>> Vasudevan Kottilil
>>>
>>>
>>>  On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 4:08 PM, Vasudevan Kottilil <
>>> vasudevank2 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Unity shell is not launching after login screen.
>>>> Tried these steps and still not working -
>>>> unity --reset-icons -> got a message saying that another widow manager
>>>> is already running on screen 0 and froze afterwards.
>>>> Tried to enable using ccsm and does not work.
>>>>
>>>> Anyone else seeing similar issues?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Vasudevan Kottilil
>>>>
>>>
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