ubuntu Precise boots to screensaver only, 2nd shot

Whenever i restart Ubuntu, now, i get a plain screen: no taskbars, no icons etc. Nothing to mouse to. Also PP does not respond to any KB command i have tried.

Totally mute.

i believe this happened after i installed fvwm2.. (also some other things)

Before this on the last working session there was a hard crash which brought up (and froze) a dialog to report the issue which said something about bin/compiz ...

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actionparsnip said: #1

Log off and log into Unity2D session

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greg heil said: #2

i think i would have had to install Unit2D..? In any case as the GUI is mute i would have to access a terminal BEFORE i entered Ubuntu`s unity. Should i perform the apt-get stuff from there? How to boot into terminal mode?

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actionparsnip said: #3

You can press CTRL+ALT+F1 and do stuff there, could even make a new user and log in as that to see if it is different

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greg heil said: #4

And i thought the GUI was mute! AC1-6 appear to go to terminals 1 to 6 and CA7 gets back to the Unity GUI.

i did try the newusers cmd but it could not get a lock on /etc/passwd

i did do the apt-get stuff at https: // wiki.ubuntu.com/Unity2D

But unity-2d fails (command not found) and unity fails (seg fault)

Note i do not have the GUI passworded so it goes straight into it w/o giving me any options such as picking my interface...

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greg heil (emanuensis) said a moment ago: #5

i guess i did not wait long enough. Eventually it brought up an Err dialog:

"The application Compiz has closed unexpectedly."

On completing this it then opens:
"Collecting problem information"

in the terminal (CA1) i did

sudo apt-get check

Which said "done" which i assume means it could find no dependency problems.

then i did

sudo apt-get changelog compiz

which gave 20+ pages of reports...