Ubuntu 16.04 - Unity doesn't load - no Launcher or Dash appears





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UPDATE: None of the provided answer to this date (2017.10.16) have helped me solve the problem, so in a fair world no one should get the bounty. I should emphasis that the provided answer were either not in the direction of answering the question (like those who suggested installing Gnome) or their suggestion didn't work on the computer that I have this issue on. Nevertheless i appreciate the time and effort they have put into this.




This might look like a duplicate post but IT'S NOT since none of the suggestions and solutions in other posts worked in my case.



Problem description:
Everything was going fine but I faces some sort of lags, so I rebooted the computer and after logging in to my account, Unity didn't load properly. I rebooted multiple times and ... Nothing.



What I did:
I tried all the solutions and suggestion out there an none of the solutions out there worked. Things like:



the top 10 suggestions here:
Unity doesn't load, no Launcher, no Dash appears



or



unity-tweak-tool --reset-unity


or



unity --reset-icons


or



unity --reset


or



gconftool --shutdown
sudo killall -r -I gconf
sudo killall -r -I dconf
rm -rf .compiz* .gconf* .config/dconf/ .config/compiz*


My Idea and question:
Based on a suggestion of my friend, I tried to login with another user and it worked! everything was fine, which narrowed down that some settings in my account is corrupted!



The question is, Which files should I transfer from the other account that Unity works fine on to my own account?



When I try to run Unity from terminal I get the following:



$unity
unity-panel-service stop/waiting
unity7 stop/waiting
unity-panel-service start/running, process 6549
unity7 start/running, process 6648









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  • 1





    Which files should you transfer? no idea, but try resetting dconf. First backup with dconf dump / > dconf.bak. Then reset with dconf reset -f / if it didn't worked, you can restore it with dconf load / < dconf.bak. You can also create a temporary admin acc, backup your account, delete it, recreate your account and retrieve from the backup only the things you need (some programs conf files and personal stuff).

    – eridani
    Oct 13 '17 at 21:28













  • I bow to your wisdom: answer deleted...

    – Fabby
    Oct 17 '17 at 21:45











  • I just had the same problem and the only solution that did it for me was this: <p> itsfoss.com/… <p> To answer you question "Which files..." it seems core.pb is the one.

    – leo277
    Mar 7 '18 at 18:05


















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UPDATE: None of the provided answer to this date (2017.10.16) have helped me solve the problem, so in a fair world no one should get the bounty. I should emphasis that the provided answer were either not in the direction of answering the question (like those who suggested installing Gnome) or their suggestion didn't work on the computer that I have this issue on. Nevertheless i appreciate the time and effort they have put into this.




This might look like a duplicate post but IT'S NOT since none of the suggestions and solutions in other posts worked in my case.



Problem description:
Everything was going fine but I faces some sort of lags, so I rebooted the computer and after logging in to my account, Unity didn't load properly. I rebooted multiple times and ... Nothing.



What I did:
I tried all the solutions and suggestion out there an none of the solutions out there worked. Things like:



the top 10 suggestions here:
Unity doesn't load, no Launcher, no Dash appears



or



unity-tweak-tool --reset-unity


or



unity --reset-icons


or



unity --reset


or



gconftool --shutdown
sudo killall -r -I gconf
sudo killall -r -I dconf
rm -rf .compiz* .gconf* .config/dconf/ .config/compiz*


My Idea and question:
Based on a suggestion of my friend, I tried to login with another user and it worked! everything was fine, which narrowed down that some settings in my account is corrupted!



The question is, Which files should I transfer from the other account that Unity works fine on to my own account?



When I try to run Unity from terminal I get the following:



$unity
unity-panel-service stop/waiting
unity7 stop/waiting
unity-panel-service start/running, process 6549
unity7 start/running, process 6648









share|improve this question




















  • 1





    Which files should you transfer? no idea, but try resetting dconf. First backup with dconf dump / > dconf.bak. Then reset with dconf reset -f / if it didn't worked, you can restore it with dconf load / < dconf.bak. You can also create a temporary admin acc, backup your account, delete it, recreate your account and retrieve from the backup only the things you need (some programs conf files and personal stuff).

    – eridani
    Oct 13 '17 at 21:28













  • I bow to your wisdom: answer deleted...

    – Fabby
    Oct 17 '17 at 21:45











  • I just had the same problem and the only solution that did it for me was this: <p> itsfoss.com/… <p> To answer you question "Which files..." it seems core.pb is the one.

    – leo277
    Mar 7 '18 at 18:05














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UPDATE: None of the provided answer to this date (2017.10.16) have helped me solve the problem, so in a fair world no one should get the bounty. I should emphasis that the provided answer were either not in the direction of answering the question (like those who suggested installing Gnome) or their suggestion didn't work on the computer that I have this issue on. Nevertheless i appreciate the time and effort they have put into this.




This might look like a duplicate post but IT'S NOT since none of the suggestions and solutions in other posts worked in my case.



Problem description:
Everything was going fine but I faces some sort of lags, so I rebooted the computer and after logging in to my account, Unity didn't load properly. I rebooted multiple times and ... Nothing.



What I did:
I tried all the solutions and suggestion out there an none of the solutions out there worked. Things like:



the top 10 suggestions here:
Unity doesn't load, no Launcher, no Dash appears



or



unity-tweak-tool --reset-unity


or



unity --reset-icons


or



unity --reset


or



gconftool --shutdown
sudo killall -r -I gconf
sudo killall -r -I dconf
rm -rf .compiz* .gconf* .config/dconf/ .config/compiz*


My Idea and question:
Based on a suggestion of my friend, I tried to login with another user and it worked! everything was fine, which narrowed down that some settings in my account is corrupted!



The question is, Which files should I transfer from the other account that Unity works fine on to my own account?



When I try to run Unity from terminal I get the following:



$unity
unity-panel-service stop/waiting
unity7 stop/waiting
unity-panel-service start/running, process 6549
unity7 start/running, process 6648









share|improve this question

















UPDATE: None of the provided answer to this date (2017.10.16) have helped me solve the problem, so in a fair world no one should get the bounty. I should emphasis that the provided answer were either not in the direction of answering the question (like those who suggested installing Gnome) or their suggestion didn't work on the computer that I have this issue on. Nevertheless i appreciate the time and effort they have put into this.




This might look like a duplicate post but IT'S NOT since none of the suggestions and solutions in other posts worked in my case.



Problem description:
Everything was going fine but I faces some sort of lags, so I rebooted the computer and after logging in to my account, Unity didn't load properly. I rebooted multiple times and ... Nothing.



What I did:
I tried all the solutions and suggestion out there an none of the solutions out there worked. Things like:



the top 10 suggestions here:
Unity doesn't load, no Launcher, no Dash appears



or



unity-tweak-tool --reset-unity


or



unity --reset-icons


or



unity --reset


or



gconftool --shutdown
sudo killall -r -I gconf
sudo killall -r -I dconf
rm -rf .compiz* .gconf* .config/dconf/ .config/compiz*


My Idea and question:
Based on a suggestion of my friend, I tried to login with another user and it worked! everything was fine, which narrowed down that some settings in my account is corrupted!



The question is, Which files should I transfer from the other account that Unity works fine on to my own account?



When I try to run Unity from terminal I get the following:



$unity
unity-panel-service stop/waiting
unity7 stop/waiting
unity-panel-service start/running, process 6549
unity7 start/running, process 6648






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    Which files should you transfer? no idea, but try resetting dconf. First backup with dconf dump / > dconf.bak. Then reset with dconf reset -f / if it didn't worked, you can restore it with dconf load / < dconf.bak. You can also create a temporary admin acc, backup your account, delete it, recreate your account and retrieve from the backup only the things you need (some programs conf files and personal stuff).

    – eridani
    Oct 13 '17 at 21:28













  • I bow to your wisdom: answer deleted...

    – Fabby
    Oct 17 '17 at 21:45











  • I just had the same problem and the only solution that did it for me was this: <p> itsfoss.com/… <p> To answer you question "Which files..." it seems core.pb is the one.

    – leo277
    Mar 7 '18 at 18:05














  • 1





    Which files should you transfer? no idea, but try resetting dconf. First backup with dconf dump / > dconf.bak. Then reset with dconf reset -f / if it didn't worked, you can restore it with dconf load / < dconf.bak. You can also create a temporary admin acc, backup your account, delete it, recreate your account and retrieve from the backup only the things you need (some programs conf files and personal stuff).

    – eridani
    Oct 13 '17 at 21:28













  • I bow to your wisdom: answer deleted...

    – Fabby
    Oct 17 '17 at 21:45











  • I just had the same problem and the only solution that did it for me was this: <p> itsfoss.com/… <p> To answer you question "Which files..." it seems core.pb is the one.

    – leo277
    Mar 7 '18 at 18:05








1




1





Which files should you transfer? no idea, but try resetting dconf. First backup with dconf dump / > dconf.bak. Then reset with dconf reset -f / if it didn't worked, you can restore it with dconf load / < dconf.bak. You can also create a temporary admin acc, backup your account, delete it, recreate your account and retrieve from the backup only the things you need (some programs conf files and personal stuff).

– eridani
Oct 13 '17 at 21:28







Which files should you transfer? no idea, but try resetting dconf. First backup with dconf dump / > dconf.bak. Then reset with dconf reset -f / if it didn't worked, you can restore it with dconf load / < dconf.bak. You can also create a temporary admin acc, backup your account, delete it, recreate your account and retrieve from the backup only the things you need (some programs conf files and personal stuff).

– eridani
Oct 13 '17 at 21:28















I bow to your wisdom: answer deleted...

– Fabby
Oct 17 '17 at 21:45





I bow to your wisdom: answer deleted...

– Fabby
Oct 17 '17 at 21:45













I just had the same problem and the only solution that did it for me was this: <p> itsfoss.com/… <p> To answer you question "Which files..." it seems core.pb is the one.

– leo277
Mar 7 '18 at 18:05





I just had the same problem and the only solution that did it for me was this: <p> itsfoss.com/… <p> To answer you question "Which files..." it seems core.pb is the one.

– leo277
Mar 7 '18 at 18:05










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Assuming you can access the terminal, have you considered downloading and switching to another desktop environment? Recently I had a very similar problem with compiz/unity and the only solution was switching to GNOME 3. If you don't really care that much about the GUI, maybe that's the way to go.



So you can access your account and you can log into other accounts without any problem. I'm just guessing but maybe it's worth a try.



sudo apt-get install ubuntu-gnome-desktop


By the way, It can be a great moment to getting to know GNOME because the next LTS Ubuntu release will have it as default, from what I've heard.






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  • I already did that, but that does not return my precious unity and is not an answer to my question which is which files I should copy from a healthy account. (since you mention it, I used moved from Fedora to Ubuntu because of Gnome3 back in the day. from the next LTS I will move to something else unless they get rid of all the terrible awful ugliness and roughness of Gnome3, probably KDE or Pantheon or worst case to MATE)

    – Mehrad Mahmoudian
    Oct 13 '17 at 11:57








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    I know it was not an answer to your question, I was just making sure you had considered other options. I don't know what " terrible awful ugliness and roughness of Gnome3" you are talking about, though.

    – pvaesrtdoe
    Oct 13 '17 at 14:55






  • 1





    Thank you @pvaesrtdoe, I was in crunchtime today and Ubuntu Unity, for no reasonable explanation borked completely as described by the OP. I tried many of the suggestions and none worked so I took your suggestion. I was fine with Unity, but in this case necessity is the motivator for me learning a new desktop environment. It's been very easy so far.

    – Shai
    Mar 8 '18 at 22:59



















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Probably a disabled installation here at your desktop.
You could try to solve this with:




sudo apt-get update




then




sudo apt-get install --reinstall lightdm ubuntu-desktop




It can happen that there appears a query, which display-manager you want to set as main display-manager ---> so simply choose then lightdm.



Hope this helps. Here you can find more explanations about lightdm:



https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LightDM



And here more explanations about unity:



https://wiki.ubuntu.com/unity






share|improve this answer
























  • After many attempts, this answer solved the issue for my laptop: it was probably the lightdm package, since I had tried to reinstall ubuntu-desktop before to no avail. Thanks a lot!

    – Erwan
    Mar 12 '18 at 14:30





















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This just happens on my 16.04. These steps worked for me (credit to It's FOSS):




  1. Press Ctrl+Alt+F1 to access the console.

  2. Use your normal username and password to login.

  3. Type sudo apt update

  4. Type sudo apt install --reinstall ubuntu-desktop

  5. Type sudo shutdown -r now






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    Assuming you can access the terminal, have you considered downloading and switching to another desktop environment? Recently I had a very similar problem with compiz/unity and the only solution was switching to GNOME 3. If you don't really care that much about the GUI, maybe that's the way to go.



    So you can access your account and you can log into other accounts without any problem. I'm just guessing but maybe it's worth a try.



    sudo apt-get install ubuntu-gnome-desktop


    By the way, It can be a great moment to getting to know GNOME because the next LTS Ubuntu release will have it as default, from what I've heard.






    share|improve this answer
























    • I already did that, but that does not return my precious unity and is not an answer to my question which is which files I should copy from a healthy account. (since you mention it, I used moved from Fedora to Ubuntu because of Gnome3 back in the day. from the next LTS I will move to something else unless they get rid of all the terrible awful ugliness and roughness of Gnome3, probably KDE or Pantheon or worst case to MATE)

      – Mehrad Mahmoudian
      Oct 13 '17 at 11:57








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      I know it was not an answer to your question, I was just making sure you had considered other options. I don't know what " terrible awful ugliness and roughness of Gnome3" you are talking about, though.

      – pvaesrtdoe
      Oct 13 '17 at 14:55






    • 1





      Thank you @pvaesrtdoe, I was in crunchtime today and Ubuntu Unity, for no reasonable explanation borked completely as described by the OP. I tried many of the suggestions and none worked so I took your suggestion. I was fine with Unity, but in this case necessity is the motivator for me learning a new desktop environment. It's been very easy so far.

      – Shai
      Mar 8 '18 at 22:59
















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    Assuming you can access the terminal, have you considered downloading and switching to another desktop environment? Recently I had a very similar problem with compiz/unity and the only solution was switching to GNOME 3. If you don't really care that much about the GUI, maybe that's the way to go.



    So you can access your account and you can log into other accounts without any problem. I'm just guessing but maybe it's worth a try.



    sudo apt-get install ubuntu-gnome-desktop


    By the way, It can be a great moment to getting to know GNOME because the next LTS Ubuntu release will have it as default, from what I've heard.






    share|improve this answer
























    • I already did that, but that does not return my precious unity and is not an answer to my question which is which files I should copy from a healthy account. (since you mention it, I used moved from Fedora to Ubuntu because of Gnome3 back in the day. from the next LTS I will move to something else unless they get rid of all the terrible awful ugliness and roughness of Gnome3, probably KDE or Pantheon or worst case to MATE)

      – Mehrad Mahmoudian
      Oct 13 '17 at 11:57








    • 1





      I know it was not an answer to your question, I was just making sure you had considered other options. I don't know what " terrible awful ugliness and roughness of Gnome3" you are talking about, though.

      – pvaesrtdoe
      Oct 13 '17 at 14:55






    • 1





      Thank you @pvaesrtdoe, I was in crunchtime today and Ubuntu Unity, for no reasonable explanation borked completely as described by the OP. I tried many of the suggestions and none worked so I took your suggestion. I was fine with Unity, but in this case necessity is the motivator for me learning a new desktop environment. It's been very easy so far.

      – Shai
      Mar 8 '18 at 22:59














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    Assuming you can access the terminal, have you considered downloading and switching to another desktop environment? Recently I had a very similar problem with compiz/unity and the only solution was switching to GNOME 3. If you don't really care that much about the GUI, maybe that's the way to go.



    So you can access your account and you can log into other accounts without any problem. I'm just guessing but maybe it's worth a try.



    sudo apt-get install ubuntu-gnome-desktop


    By the way, It can be a great moment to getting to know GNOME because the next LTS Ubuntu release will have it as default, from what I've heard.






    share|improve this answer













    Assuming you can access the terminal, have you considered downloading and switching to another desktop environment? Recently I had a very similar problem with compiz/unity and the only solution was switching to GNOME 3. If you don't really care that much about the GUI, maybe that's the way to go.



    So you can access your account and you can log into other accounts without any problem. I'm just guessing but maybe it's worth a try.



    sudo apt-get install ubuntu-gnome-desktop


    By the way, It can be a great moment to getting to know GNOME because the next LTS Ubuntu release will have it as default, from what I've heard.







    share|improve this answer












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    • I already did that, but that does not return my precious unity and is not an answer to my question which is which files I should copy from a healthy account. (since you mention it, I used moved from Fedora to Ubuntu because of Gnome3 back in the day. from the next LTS I will move to something else unless they get rid of all the terrible awful ugliness and roughness of Gnome3, probably KDE or Pantheon or worst case to MATE)

      – Mehrad Mahmoudian
      Oct 13 '17 at 11:57








    • 1





      I know it was not an answer to your question, I was just making sure you had considered other options. I don't know what " terrible awful ugliness and roughness of Gnome3" you are talking about, though.

      – pvaesrtdoe
      Oct 13 '17 at 14:55






    • 1





      Thank you @pvaesrtdoe, I was in crunchtime today and Ubuntu Unity, for no reasonable explanation borked completely as described by the OP. I tried many of the suggestions and none worked so I took your suggestion. I was fine with Unity, but in this case necessity is the motivator for me learning a new desktop environment. It's been very easy so far.

      – Shai
      Mar 8 '18 at 22:59



















    • I already did that, but that does not return my precious unity and is not an answer to my question which is which files I should copy from a healthy account. (since you mention it, I used moved from Fedora to Ubuntu because of Gnome3 back in the day. from the next LTS I will move to something else unless they get rid of all the terrible awful ugliness and roughness of Gnome3, probably KDE or Pantheon or worst case to MATE)

      – Mehrad Mahmoudian
      Oct 13 '17 at 11:57








    • 1





      I know it was not an answer to your question, I was just making sure you had considered other options. I don't know what " terrible awful ugliness and roughness of Gnome3" you are talking about, though.

      – pvaesrtdoe
      Oct 13 '17 at 14:55






    • 1





      Thank you @pvaesrtdoe, I was in crunchtime today and Ubuntu Unity, for no reasonable explanation borked completely as described by the OP. I tried many of the suggestions and none worked so I took your suggestion. I was fine with Unity, but in this case necessity is the motivator for me learning a new desktop environment. It's been very easy so far.

      – Shai
      Mar 8 '18 at 22:59

















    I already did that, but that does not return my precious unity and is not an answer to my question which is which files I should copy from a healthy account. (since you mention it, I used moved from Fedora to Ubuntu because of Gnome3 back in the day. from the next LTS I will move to something else unless they get rid of all the terrible awful ugliness and roughness of Gnome3, probably KDE or Pantheon or worst case to MATE)

    – Mehrad Mahmoudian
    Oct 13 '17 at 11:57







    I already did that, but that does not return my precious unity and is not an answer to my question which is which files I should copy from a healthy account. (since you mention it, I used moved from Fedora to Ubuntu because of Gnome3 back in the day. from the next LTS I will move to something else unless they get rid of all the terrible awful ugliness and roughness of Gnome3, probably KDE or Pantheon or worst case to MATE)

    – Mehrad Mahmoudian
    Oct 13 '17 at 11:57






    1




    1





    I know it was not an answer to your question, I was just making sure you had considered other options. I don't know what " terrible awful ugliness and roughness of Gnome3" you are talking about, though.

    – pvaesrtdoe
    Oct 13 '17 at 14:55





    I know it was not an answer to your question, I was just making sure you had considered other options. I don't know what " terrible awful ugliness and roughness of Gnome3" you are talking about, though.

    – pvaesrtdoe
    Oct 13 '17 at 14:55




    1




    1





    Thank you @pvaesrtdoe, I was in crunchtime today and Ubuntu Unity, for no reasonable explanation borked completely as described by the OP. I tried many of the suggestions and none worked so I took your suggestion. I was fine with Unity, but in this case necessity is the motivator for me learning a new desktop environment. It's been very easy so far.

    – Shai
    Mar 8 '18 at 22:59





    Thank you @pvaesrtdoe, I was in crunchtime today and Ubuntu Unity, for no reasonable explanation borked completely as described by the OP. I tried many of the suggestions and none worked so I took your suggestion. I was fine with Unity, but in this case necessity is the motivator for me learning a new desktop environment. It's been very easy so far.

    – Shai
    Mar 8 '18 at 22:59













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    Probably a disabled installation here at your desktop.
    You could try to solve this with:




    sudo apt-get update




    then




    sudo apt-get install --reinstall lightdm ubuntu-desktop




    It can happen that there appears a query, which display-manager you want to set as main display-manager ---> so simply choose then lightdm.



    Hope this helps. Here you can find more explanations about lightdm:



    https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LightDM



    And here more explanations about unity:



    https://wiki.ubuntu.com/unity






    share|improve this answer
























    • After many attempts, this answer solved the issue for my laptop: it was probably the lightdm package, since I had tried to reinstall ubuntu-desktop before to no avail. Thanks a lot!

      – Erwan
      Mar 12 '18 at 14:30


















    2














    Probably a disabled installation here at your desktop.
    You could try to solve this with:




    sudo apt-get update




    then




    sudo apt-get install --reinstall lightdm ubuntu-desktop




    It can happen that there appears a query, which display-manager you want to set as main display-manager ---> so simply choose then lightdm.



    Hope this helps. Here you can find more explanations about lightdm:



    https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LightDM



    And here more explanations about unity:



    https://wiki.ubuntu.com/unity






    share|improve this answer
























    • After many attempts, this answer solved the issue for my laptop: it was probably the lightdm package, since I had tried to reinstall ubuntu-desktop before to no avail. Thanks a lot!

      – Erwan
      Mar 12 '18 at 14:30
















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    Probably a disabled installation here at your desktop.
    You could try to solve this with:




    sudo apt-get update




    then




    sudo apt-get install --reinstall lightdm ubuntu-desktop




    It can happen that there appears a query, which display-manager you want to set as main display-manager ---> so simply choose then lightdm.



    Hope this helps. Here you can find more explanations about lightdm:



    https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LightDM



    And here more explanations about unity:



    https://wiki.ubuntu.com/unity






    share|improve this answer













    Probably a disabled installation here at your desktop.
    You could try to solve this with:




    sudo apt-get update




    then




    sudo apt-get install --reinstall lightdm ubuntu-desktop




    It can happen that there appears a query, which display-manager you want to set as main display-manager ---> so simply choose then lightdm.



    Hope this helps. Here you can find more explanations about lightdm:



    https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LightDM



    And here more explanations about unity:



    https://wiki.ubuntu.com/unity







    share|improve this answer












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    • After many attempts, this answer solved the issue for my laptop: it was probably the lightdm package, since I had tried to reinstall ubuntu-desktop before to no avail. Thanks a lot!

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    • After many attempts, this answer solved the issue for my laptop: it was probably the lightdm package, since I had tried to reinstall ubuntu-desktop before to no avail. Thanks a lot!

      – Erwan
      Mar 12 '18 at 14:30



















    After many attempts, this answer solved the issue for my laptop: it was probably the lightdm package, since I had tried to reinstall ubuntu-desktop before to no avail. Thanks a lot!

    – Erwan
    Mar 12 '18 at 14:30







    After many attempts, this answer solved the issue for my laptop: it was probably the lightdm package, since I had tried to reinstall ubuntu-desktop before to no avail. Thanks a lot!

    – Erwan
    Mar 12 '18 at 14:30













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    This just happens on my 16.04. These steps worked for me (credit to It's FOSS):




    1. Press Ctrl+Alt+F1 to access the console.

    2. Use your normal username and password to login.

    3. Type sudo apt update

    4. Type sudo apt install --reinstall ubuntu-desktop

    5. Type sudo shutdown -r now






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      This just happens on my 16.04. These steps worked for me (credit to It's FOSS):




      1. Press Ctrl+Alt+F1 to access the console.

      2. Use your normal username and password to login.

      3. Type sudo apt update

      4. Type sudo apt install --reinstall ubuntu-desktop

      5. Type sudo shutdown -r now






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        This just happens on my 16.04. These steps worked for me (credit to It's FOSS):




        1. Press Ctrl+Alt+F1 to access the console.

        2. Use your normal username and password to login.

        3. Type sudo apt update

        4. Type sudo apt install --reinstall ubuntu-desktop

        5. Type sudo shutdown -r now






        share|improve this answer















        This just happens on my 16.04. These steps worked for me (credit to It's FOSS):




        1. Press Ctrl+Alt+F1 to access the console.

        2. Use your normal username and password to login.

        3. Type sudo apt update

        4. Type sudo apt install --reinstall ubuntu-desktop

        5. Type sudo shutdown -r now







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        answered Jan 12 at 3:17









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