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The desktop environment loads (I can use ctrl+alt+T, for example) but neither the topbar nor the unity launcher appear on the desktop.

dmesg | grep NVIDIA

[    2.592879] NVRM: loading NVIDIA UNIX x86_64 Kernel Module  304.88  Wed Mar 27 14:26:46 PDT 2013
[    3.262291] NVRM: Your system is not currently configured to drive a VGA console
[    3.262293] NVRM: on the primary VGA device. The NVIDIA Linux graphics driver
[    3.262295] NVRM: requires the use of a text-mode VGA console. Use of other console
[    3.262295] NVRM: drivers including, but not limited to, vesafb, may result in
[    3.262296] NVRM: corruption and stability problems, and is not supported.

sudo cat /var/log/syslog | grep NVI

Apr 19 23:31:35 monster kernel: [    2.149532] nvidia: module license 'NVIDIA' taints kernel.
Apr 19 23:31:35 monster kernel: [    2.592879] NVRM: loading NVIDIA UNIX x86_64 Kernel Module  304.88  Wed Mar 27 14:26:46 PDT 2013
Apr 19 23:31:36 monster kernel: [    3.262293] NVRM: on the primary VGA device. The NVIDIA Linux graphics driver

Tried this, https://askubuntu.com/a/215020. Not sure where to go from here.

2 Answers2

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For me, resetting compiz and unity a few times worked.

dconf reset -f /org/compiz/ 
unity --reset-icons &disown
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nvidia-xconfig should fix this. I provide more details in my answer to Unity not loading on 13.04 with nvidia-current.