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I'm now using Ubuntu 14.04.3 and using Unity tool for change some effects. Curiously, I changed Window spread to "on" in the Window spread tag, the system automatically logged out. When I tried to login, I entered the main screens but immediately the system logged out again. After efforts login few times, the situation still happened.

However, I login successfully with a Guest account. I tried some solutions on the Internet but there is no point to solve my problem. What should I do?

Vinh Nguyen
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  1. Press CtrlAltF1 to switch to console (tty1)
  2. Login

  3. Check the running dbus-deamon

    ps aux | grep dbus-deamon

  4. Set X display & dbus address variables

    export DISPLAY=:0
export DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS=unix:abstract=/tmp/dbus-bN5xD2OA1Y

    /tmp/dbus-bN5xD2OA1Y set as example, copy your own from previous step.

  5. Run this to get the enabled Compiz plug-ins

    dconf read /org/compiz/profiles/unity/plugins/core/active-plugins

    Output should be something like:

    ['core', 'composite', 'opengl', 'compiztoolbox', 'grid', 'wall', 'vpswitch', 'snap', 'mousepoll', 'copytex', 'commands', 'place', 'move', 'regex', 'resize', 'imgpng', 'unitymtgrabhandles', 'session', 'animation', 'fade', 'expo', 'workarounds', 'ezoom', 'unityshell', 'scale']

  6. Then this after you remove scale plug-in the for window spread, example:

    dconf write /org/compiz/profiles/unity/plugins/core/active-plugins "['core', 'composite', 'opengl', 'compiztoolbox', 'grid', 'wall', 'vpswitch', 'snap', 'mousepoll', 'copytex', 'commands', 'place', 'move', 'regex', 'resize', 'imgpng', 'unitymtgrabhandles', 'session', 'animation', 'fade', 'expo', 'workarounds', 'ezoom', 'unityshell']"

    However, I noticed from your output in chat that you have gnome compatibility plugin enabled 'gnomecompat', which is not compatible with unity plugin. (from a previous experience, it make unity crash)

  7. Press CtrlAltF7 to switch to back to GUI console (tty7)

Note: As retyping such long command in terminal is error prune, I wrote a script to do same instructions

wget -O au_699540.sh http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=swuzDuJ3
chmod +x au_699540.sh
./au_699540.sh

I don't want to make it long for you. There is another quick trick but it has a drawback. It will reset all your user settings stored in dconf database (This includes Unity, Gnome & Some GTK apps)

sudo rm ~/.config/dconf/user
user.dz
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maybe this can help you to login, after this you can reset compiz to default with this command:

dconf reset -f /org/compiz/
Carlos Gómez
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Have you tried the tty, and enter this in th tty:

sudo apt-get install --reinstall ubuntu-desktop
sudo apt-get install dkms
sudo dkms-reconfigure unity
sudo apt-get install -f

and it might work fine this way.

Michael
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Reset Unity, wiping all changes to configuration.

  1. Swtich to a tty console (CtrlAltF1)
  2. Login
  3. unity-tweak-tool --reset-unity
  4. sudo reboot
Gayan Weerakutti
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Press ctrl + Alt + F1, to bring up a tty. The type username and password. Then:

Install dconf-tools: sudo apt-get install dconf-tools

Reset Compiz and Unity: dconf reset -f /org/compiz/

Reset Unity: setsid unity

If that also fails, then maybe deleting the settings files might help:

rm  -rf ~/.compiz-1 
rm -rf ~/.config/compiz-1

Lastly, you could try the following:

sudo apt-get install dconf-tools
dconf reset -f /org/compiz/
unity --reset-icons
Tshilidzi Mudau
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I've read this thread: Unity crash in Ubuntu 14.04

After all, I resolved this problem by typing

mv ~/.config/dconf/user ~/.config/dconf/user.old

I followed this tips, they changed back to the default Ubuntu settings. Although it isn't the best solution, it worked fine for me. Thanks everyone taking time to help me solve this problem.

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Vinh Nguyen
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