13.10 daily image - Unity not launching after upgrade

[Vasudevan Kottilil]

Thanks, Nicholas and Phil.
I am not using virtualbox. I have two test environments - one is
saucy-daily-guest image in kvm. Other is a bare metal installation running
alongside my 12.10 main desktop on a different partition.
I was getting these errors when trying to refresh daily build using apt-get
update and apt-get upgrade.
Yesterday I was able to download latest good zsync (i think it is friday's
image) from a location with faster connection, burned and reinstalled on my
test partition.
So I am good to continue my tests for now. It will be a problem if I get
the same error after the next apt-get upgrade.

Another question in this regard - does the display engine switch over to
mir automatically after an apt-get upgrade? Or is it a user initiated task?
Is there any command to show which graphics engine is currently running?
Thanks
Vasudevan Kottilil

On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 9:51 AM, Phill Whiteside <PhillW at ubuntu.com> wrote:

> Following on from what Nicholas said, when upgrading a test ISO, please be
> aware of possibility of the upgrade not being fully sync'd and asking to
> remove things, more details can be found at
> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1343434
>
> Regards,
>
> Phill.
>
>
> On 15 July 2013 16:40, Nicholas Skaggs <nicholas.skaggs at canonical.com>wrote:
>
>>  Vasudevan, this is in a virtualbox image right? And your using the
>> 64-bit daily saucy image? Can you give us anymore details about your setup
>> that might help? If your encountering issues, you can workaround them a
>> couple ways.
>>
>> 1) Use a non-unity desktop enviroment. If something in unity is broken,
>> use lxde, xfce, or something else in the interim.
>> 2) Stay on an older image and don't upgrade until your bug is fixed. Make
>> sure you file it, but if your using a vm, you should be able to clone it so
>> you have a working machine that you can use and a spare test version to
>> check and track progress on the bug preventing you from upgrading.
>>
>> Nicholas
>>
>>
>> On 07/12/2013 06:10 PM, Vasudevan Kottilil wrote:
>>
>> Thanks, Phil; Tried update/upgrade again today and still can not boot/log
>> into 13.10 after upgrade. During upgrade, saw a bunch of errors like these
>> "(gtk-update-icon-cache-3.0:5767): GdkPixbuf-WARNING **: Cannot open
>> pixbuf loader module file
>> '/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gdk-pixbuf-2.0/2.10.0/loaders.cache': No such
>> file or directory
>> This likely means that your installation is broken."
>> Than I  reinstalled the older image from dvd and did an
>> update/upgrade;got the same errors.
>> Vasudevan Kottilil
>> On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 9:18 AM, Phill Whiteside <PhillW at ubuntu.com>wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>>  update & upgrade will indeed up date an installed system, if you want
>>> to refresh your ISO for installation then use zsync [1].
>>>
>>>  Regards,
>>>
>>>  Phill.
>>> 1.
>>> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/Activities/Classroom/Saucy#Introduction_to_QA_.2BAC8_Testing
>>>
>>>   On 12 July 2013 17:15, Vasudevan Kottilil <vasudevank2 at gmail.com>wrote:
>>>
>>>>  As a follow up, do we have to download new iso and re install to
>>>> reflect the change over from unity to mir? Usually I apt-get upgrade to
>>>> refresh the daily image.
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Vasudevan Kottilil
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>  On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 4:08 PM, Vasudevan Kottilil <
>>>> vasudevank2 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Unity shell is not launching after login screen.
>>>>> Tried these steps and still not working -
>>>>> unity --reset-icons -> got a message saying that another widow manager
>>>>> is already running on screen 0 and froze afterwards.
>>>>> Tried to enable using ccsm and does not work.
>>>>>
>>>>> Anyone else seeing similar issues?
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>> Vasudevan Kottilil
>>>>>
>>>>
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