Unity not working correctly

Asked by michael

Ubuntu 12.04.01 3.2.0-30
Nvidia Quadro FX 540
Pentium 4 2.80 Hz
Ram 3150
Desktop Dell Optiplex GX 280

                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Problem with Unity

About a month ago, had a small problem in 12.04. Crashed it, trying to fix it. (Do not remember what problem was, or what I did to crash computer). When I booted up, had no Unity. Ok, I was tired of Unity, and thought I wanted Classic. About a week and a half ago, I decided to go back to Unity, did not happen. Nothing I did, would get Unity to work right. The best was to use “unity –replace”. But on each boot, I had to give that command again. I have searched for a solution on the internet in many places. I made sure in CompizConfig Settings that Ubuntu Unity Plugin is checked, and Gnome Compatibly unchecked. Have had to change two times. Using “unity –replace” in terminal always has a process running. There are 41 pages in terminal now. I have looked up many of the errors, warnings, and no such interface. Have tried many fixes, no luck. There are bugs for many single line warning, but not many fixes. Probably some simple something, I am so frustrated, I can't see it. Will give some of terminal information. If you need all 41 pages, just ask.

mcpulley@GX:~$ unity --replace
Checking if settings need to be migrated ...no
Checking if internal files need to be migrated ...no
Backend : gconf
Integration : true
Profile : unity
Adding plugins
Initializing core options...done
compiz (core) - Warn: failed to receive ConfigureNotify event on 0xe00003

compiz (core) - Warn: failed to receive ConfigureNotify event on 0xe00014

compiz (core) - Warn: failed to receive ConfigureNotify event on 0x1e00004

Initializing composite options...done
Initializing opengl options...done

(compiz:3377): GConf-CRITICAL **: gconf_client_add_dir: assertion `gconf_valid_key (dirname, NULL)' failed
Initializing unityshell options...done
compiz (core) - Warn: unhandled ConfigureNotify on 0x420009e!
compiz (core) - Warn: this should never happen. you should probably file a bug about this.
compiz (core) - Warn: unhandled ConfigureNotify on 0x42000a1!
compiz (core) - Warn: this should never happen. you should probably file a bug about this.
compiz (core) - Warn: unhandled ConfigureNotify on 0x42000a4!
compiz (core) - Warn: this should never happen. you should probably file a bug about this.
WARN 2012-09-12 22:52:47 unity.libindicator <unknown>:0 Desktop file '/usr/share/app-install/desktop/chromium-browser:chromium-browser.desktop' is using a deprecated format for its actions that will be dropped soon.
WARN 2012-09-12 22:52:47 unity.libindicator <unknown>:0 Desktop file '/usr/share/applications/libreoffice-writer.desktop' is using a deprecated format for its actions that will be dropped soon.
Initializing addhelper options...done

Initializing winrules options...done
Initializing wobbly options...done
ERROR 2012-09-12 22:52:50 unity.glib-gobject <unknown>:0 g_object_unref: assertion `G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed
Setting Update "launcher_hide_mode"
ERROR 2012-09-12 22:52:50 unity.gtk <unknown>:0 gtk_icon_info_get_filename: assertion `icon_info != NULL' failed
ERROR 2012-09-12 22:52:50 unity.gtk <unknown>:0 gtk_icon_info_free: assertion `icon_info != NULL' failed
ERROR 2012-09-12 22:52:50 unity.gtk <unknown>:0 gtk_icon_info_load_icon: assertion `icon_info != NULL' failed
ERROR 2012-09-12 22:52:50 unity.gtk <unknown>:0 gtk_icon_info_free: assertion `icon_info != NULL' failed
WARN 2012-09-12 22:52:50 unity.launcher LauncherIcon.cpp:433 Unable to load 'workspace-switcher' from icon theme:
WARN 2012-09-12 23:38:17 unity <unknown>:0 Unable to fetch children: No such interface `org.ayatana.bamf.view' on object at path /org/ayatana/bamf/application1077889513

ERROR 2012-09-12 23:38:19 unity.glib-gobject <unknown>:0 g_object_set_qdata: assertion `G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed
Setting Update "active_plugins"
Setting Update "launcher_hide_mode"

(compiz:3377): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_unref: assertion `G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed
compiz (expo) - Warn: failed to bind image to texture

(compiz:3377): GConf-CRITICAL **: gconf_client_add_dir: assertion `gconf_valid_key (dirname, NULL)' failed
ERROR 2012-09-12 23:39:22 unity.gtk <unknown>:0 gtk_icon_info_get_filename: assertion `icon_info != NULL'

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said :
#1

Can you give the output of:

sudo lshw -C display; lsb_release -a; dpkg -l | grep nvidia

Thanks

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michael (yellupcm-gmail) said :
#2

mcpulley@GX:~$ sudo lshw -C display; lsb_release -a; dpkg -l | grep nvidia
[sudo] password for mcpulley:
  *-display
       description: VGA compatible controller
       product: NV43GL [Quadro FX 540]
       vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0
       version: a2
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm msi pciexpress vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom
       configuration: driver=nvidia latency=0
       resources: irq:16 memory:d8000000-dbffffff memory:c8000000-cfffffff memory:de000000-deffffff memory:dfe00000-dfe1ffff
LSB Version: core-2.0-ia32:core-2.0-noarch:core-3.0-ia32:core-3.0-noarch:core-3.1-ia32:core-3.1-noarch:core-3.2-ia32:core-3.2-noarch:core-4.0-ia32:core-4.0-noarch
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS
Release: 12.04
Codename: precise
ii nvidia-common 1:0.2.44 Find obsolete NVIDIA drivers
ii nvidia-current 295.40-0ubuntu1.1 NVIDIA binary Xorg driver, kernel module and VDPAU library
ii nvidia-current-updates 295.49-0ubuntu0.2 NVIDIA binary Xorg driver, kernel module and VDPAU library
ii nvidia-settings 295.33-0ubuntu1 Tool of configuring the NVIDIA graphics driver
ii nvidia-settings-updates 295.33-0ubuntu1 Tool of configuring the NVIDIA graphics driver

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michael (yellupcm-gmail) said :
#3

Solved!! No clue. From the time I asked this question, everything has worked fine. I have not changed anything.