Unity restarts on icon hover
I suspect this may be due to missing video driver support (3D or animation effects?) or some legacy configuration, but after an upgrade to 10.10 from 10.04, the Gnome desktop was fine, only after I installed and selected Unity for the default session, now the desktop will come up, only hovering over any of the left-side icons will cause the window manager to exit and re-start.
the xsession-errors reports:
** (gnome-
** (gnome-
Window manager warning: Log level 8: mutter_window_show: assertion `!priv->visible' failed
Window manager warning: meta_window_
** (gnome-
Window manager warning: Log level 16: invalid cast from `BamfApplication' to `BamfWindow'
Window manager warning: Log level 8: bamf_window_
Window manager warning: Log level 128: Registering window ID 50331651 with path /org/ayatana/
Window manager warning: Log level 128: Creating new windows menu: 3000003, :1.75, /org/ayatana/
Window manager warning: Log level 128: Switching to menus from XID 48234501
Window manager warning: Log level 16: invalid (NULL) pointer instance
Window manager warning: Log level 8: g_signal_
Window manager warning: Log level 128: Active window is: NULL
Window manager warning: Log level 128: Switching to menus from XID 0
Window manager warning: Log level 16: gtk_menu_detach(): menu is not attached
Window manager warning: Log level 16: gtk_menu_detach(): menu is not attached
Window manager warning: Log level 16: gtk_menu_detach(): menu is not attached
Window manager warning: Log level 16: gtk_menu_detach(): menu is not attached
Window manager warning: Log level 16: gtk_menu_detach(): menu is not attached
Window manager warning: Log level 16: gtk_menu_detach(): menu is not attached
Window manager warning: Log level 16: gtk_menu_detach(): menu is not attached
Window manager warning: Buggy client sent a _NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW message with a timestamp of 0 for 0x3000003 (Audacious)
Window manager warning: meta_window_
Window manager warning: Log level 128: Switching to menus from XID 50331651
Window manager warning: Log level 128: Unable to get MWM functions for: 50331651
(mutter:1960): libunity-WARNING **: unity-appinfo-
Window manager warning: Log level 16: invalid (NULL) pointer instance
Window manager warning: Log level 8: g_signal_
Window manager warning: Log level 16: invalid (NULL) pointer instance
Window manager warning: Log level 8: g_signal_
(repeated many times)
** (gnome-
Window manager warning: Log level 16: invalid (NULL) pointer instance
Window manager warning: Log level 8: g_signal_
Window manager warning: Log level 128: Switching to menus from XID 48234501
Window manager warning: Log level 16: gtk_menu_detach(): menu is not attached
Window manager warning: Log level 16: gtk_menu_detach(): menu is not attached
Window manager warning: Log level 16: gtk_menu_detach(): menu is not attached
Window manager warning: Log level 16: gtk_menu_detach(): menu is not attached
Window manager warning: Log level 16: gtk_menu_detach(): menu is not attached
Window manager warning: Log level 16: gtk_menu_detach(): menu is not attached
Window manager warning: Log level 16: gtk_menu_detach(): menu is not attached
Window manager warning: Log level 128: Unable to get MWM functions for: 48234501
Window manager warning: Log level 16: invalid (NULL) pointer instance
Window manager warning: Log level 8: g_signal_
software appears to run fine when run from a terminal, and the upper menu of the Unity frame still functions, this only affects the left-side icons. Could there be a package missing? Is .xsession-errors the appropriate place to look for diagnostics? Any other logs I should check?
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