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No Unity after gnome:ppa added for Gnome 3.8 in Ubuntu 13.04

Asked by S. Patrikios

Well, it was a long day.
After adding the ppa for gnome 3.8, Software Updater stopped in the middle of the job (linux kernel 3.8.0.25?), which I finished manually.
Then I could have no other wallpaper, but white, no matter what.
So far, Unity was functioning more or less better than gnome.
Then I changed my theme to MediteraneanDark something.
All of a sudden I could have my dark wallpeper allright, but... I had no Unity desktop any more.
Every manu choice stayed on the desktop ontop of the other, the Unity bar was unreadable, a blur of colours, and when I tried to take a snapshot, everything froze (twice)!
I had to turn the system off the hard way.
Open to suggestions guys!

 Ubuntu Raring Ringtail (development branch)
Release: 13.04

unity:
  Installed: 6.12.0daily13.03.25.1-0ubuntu1
  Candidate: 6.12.0daily13.03.25.1-0ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 6.12.0daily13.03.25.1-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://gr.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ raring/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

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This question was originally filed as bug #1161561.

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Quinn Balazs (qbalazs) said : 		#1

Thank you for taking the time to report this issue and helping to make Ubuntu better. Examining the information you have given us, this does not appear to be a bug report so we are closing it and converting it to a question in the support tracker. We understand the difficulties you are facing, but it is better to raise problems you are having in the support tracker at https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu if you are uncertain if they are bugs. You can also find help with your problem in the support forum of your local Ubuntu community http://loco.ubuntu.com/ or asking at http://askubuntu.com or http://ubuntuforums.org. For help on reporting bugs, see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#2

Why did you add the PPA?

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S. Patrikios (sipatrik-m) said : 		#3

To get gnome 3.8, as per an article on W8.
SP
On 29/03/2013 12:01 πμ, actionparsnip wrote:
> Your question #225380 on Ubuntu changed:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/225380
>
> Status: Open => Needs information
>
> actionparsnip requested more information:
> Why did you add the PPA?
>

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N1ck 7h0m4d4k15 (nicktux) said : 		#4

Certainly this is not a bug , and also we cannot support here an Unreleased version of Ubuntu. (13.04).

Do not experiment with PPAs , especially if you running a development branch of Ubuntu.

It would be a good idea to REinstall Ubuntu 13.04 , and participate in bugs (if any).
Be aware that you will have not any support here , because of unreleased version.

Regards
 NikTh

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S. Patrikios (sipatrik-m) said : 		#5

That was a quick one! Not adventurous, but quick.
Thought of reinstalling 13.04, but I would rather see this out, for as long as the system functions!
Thanks anyway.
SP

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#6

You didn't answer my question dude :-)

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S. Patrikios (sipatrik-m) said : 		#7

But I did, it is over there on the board in black & white!
SP

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#8

Then I suggest you report a bug. Raring isnt ready or stable. I recommend you use ppa-purge so that you can report effective bugs as you will not have unofficial packages in your OS.

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khalidchawtany (khalidchawtany) said : 		#9

The same happened to me fortunately I had a Clonezilla backup to help me get back as ppa-purge did not help.
I thought something wrong might have happened so I reinstalled it again and the same story repeated itself.
White background and menus are like boxes with borders

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N1ck 7h0m4d4k15 (nicktux) said : 		#10

Gnome 3.8 IS NOT SUPPORTED OFFICIAL in Ubuntu 13.04.

Anyone who adds an unsupported and untrusted PPA , should consider first that anything can be happen , and If system crash then Ubuntu has nothing to do with this.

Read the statement

"You can update your system with unsupported packages from this untrusted PPA by adding ppa:gnome3-team/gnome3 to your system's Software Sources. "

https://launchpad.net/~gnome3-team/+archive/gnome3

Regards
 NikTh

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