On a previously working install of Ubuntu 15.10, I rebooted and am now unable to log in to Unity with any users (main account or guest). I can log into my shell in another tty.
I've tried all the suggested fixes in the highest-voted question on this subject, to no avail.
My .xsession-errors looks suspicious:
openConnection: connect: No such file or directory
cannot connect to brltty at :0
upstart: upstart-event-bridge main process (5926) terminated with status 1
upstart: upstart-event-bridge main process ended, respawning
... (last two logs repeated)
upstart: upstart-event-bridge respawning too fast, stopped
upstart: gnome-session (Unity) main process (3123) terminated with status 1
This leads me to Ubuntu bug 1432317, which doesn't seem to have a resolution.
Any suggestions for other diags to check? Here are some things I've tried:
- Per https://askubuntu.com/a/223634/39801, Permissions on
.Xauthority,.ICEauthority, andtmpare correct. - I've tried removing
.bashrc,.profile,.config/compiz-1. - Moving mv ~/.config/dconf/user ~/.config/dconf/user.old
- Restarting/reinstalling lightdm and ubuntu-desktop doesn't help
- Installing gnome-session-flashback doesn't fix the issue
- Newly created users are affected by the issue
- I have plenty of free space on all my mounts.
In case it's relevant, I'm running Ubuntu as a VM under Parallels 11.
