13.10 daily image - Unity not launching after upgrade

[Phill Whiteside]

Hi,

I'm not a ubuntu tester (I'm Lubuntu), so cannot answer about mir, however
I do suggest you look closely at what an update & upgrade is planning to do
as per the link on my earlier email [1]. If it is *not* offering a partial
upgrade then there may be a gremiln in the works; if it *does* offer a
partial upgrade, my advice is to refuse it and try again some 12 hours
later.  However, at this early stage of testing  (in old language, we are
still pre-alpha 2) things can get out of sync for a few hours. If you are
in doubt of what an upgrade is proposing, ask on the #ubuntu-quality IRC
channel.

Thank you for being a tester. Keep smiling and keep testing :)

Regards,

Phill.
1. http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1343434

On 15 July 2013 19:56, Vasudevan Kottilil <vasudevank2 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks, Nicholas and Phil.
> I am not using virtualbox. I have two test environments - one is
> saucy-daily-guest image in kvm. Other is a bare metal installation running
> alongside my 12.10 main desktop on a different partition.
> I was getting these errors when trying to refresh daily build using
> apt-get update and apt-get upgrade.
> Yesterday I was able to download latest good zsync (i think it is friday's
> image) from a location with faster connection, burned and reinstalled on my
> test partition.
> So I am good to continue my tests for now. It will be a problem if I get
> the same error after the next apt-get upgrade.
>
> Another question in this regard - does the display engine switch over to
> mir automatically after an apt-get upgrade? Or is it a user initiated task?
> Is there any command to show which graphics engine is currently running?
> Thanks
> Vasudevan Kottilil
>
>
> On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 9:51 AM, Phill Whiteside <PhillW at ubuntu.com>wrote:
>
>> 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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