[Solved] Lost Unity

[David Shochat]

On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 9:23 AM, Colin Law <clanlaw at googlemail.com> wrote:
> On 21 October 2011 21:34, Jim Byrnes <jf_byrnes at comcast.net> wrote:
>> ...
>> Turns out I shot myself in the foot. To get unity back I opened a terminal
>> and typed ccsm to open the settings manager.  Than I noticed that Ubuntu
>> Unity Plugin was NOT checked.  I checked it and Unity  came back.  I
>> certainly did not uncheck it on purpose.  I must have dragged the mouse
>> pointer across it without realizing what I had done.
>
> I don't think you shot yourself in the foot- I think there is a bug. I
> have just had exactly the same experience (though a normal install not
> in Virtual Box).  I installed ccsm and had a look at some of the
> settings and at some point the panel and launcher disappeared.  I got
> similar messages and hanging when I ran unity --reset and then found
> your post, ran ccsm from a terminal and discovered as you did that the
> unity plugin was disabled.  There is no way that I disabled it myself,
> and the fact that the same thing happened to you suggests a bug.
>
> Enabling the plugin brought everything back as it did for you.
>
> ...
>
> Having typed the above I went off to see if I could find a bug in
> launchpad and found this [1] - Panel and Launcher are lost if 'Set
> Default Settings' is pressed in ccsm.  It is possible that I did this.
> @Jim is it possible you did this also?  I have added a comment to the
> bug that it should be higher priority as I think clicking Set Default
> Settings is a natural thing to do after experimenting with settings
> and having it make the system effectively unusable is serious.
>
> Colin
>
> [1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity/+bug/777024
>
I'd say definite bug (it happened to me soon after my upgrade). I'll
go subscribe to 777024. And next time it happens to me I'll no what to
do (last time I cured it by deleting the entire contents of the home
directory in question!).