Comment 8 for bug 692905

After the latest updates this morning, the gnome desktop seemed a lot more responsive and some of the tiny niggles such as dropdown menus taking ages before they would work had gone. Unity would not work at all, and starting with the unity desktop gave a whole lot of things that failed to start beginning with the wastebasket. Clicking on re-try put these as menuitems or icons in the gnome desktop.

I decided to re-install as a clean installation and go through the upgrade/update process. On first installing, Unity worked. After the updates had completed, unity would not start and I was left with the gnome desktop with the error messages as above. Attempts to start Unity from the terminal give the attached output, and Unity works, but is somewhat broken; ie no gnome menus, or only some. Switching to the gnome desktop as default now gives a workable system again.