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I am having trouble with Unity after an upgrade to 14.04 (and still there after another update to 14.10 which was due to me not paying attention)

I have no unity or anything else and only have Firefox because being the very nice app that it is it loaded for me to carry on where it left off.

I can drop to TTY1 and DISPLAY=:0 unity --replace but the error message I get is

compiz (opengl) - error: FBO is incomplete: GL:FRAMEBUFFER UNSUPPORTED

What is it trying to tell me and how can I fix this?

UPDATE 1: I tried following the advice here: upgraded to 14.10 and no unity no dash but this was not the answer I was looking for.

UPDATE 2: Using DISPLAY=:0 ccsm I was able to enable to the Unity plugin for compiz and disable Framebuffer Object in OpenGL DISPLAY=:0 compiz then gives me the unity sidebar although the top bar is pretty limited and lacks menus etc.

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  • I would suggest doing a re-install of 14.04 or 14.10 (make a backup of your personal data if needed). You can turn the framebuffer off with CCSM but you need a desktop for that ;)
    – Rinzwind
    Apr 25, 2015 at 14:45
  • I'd rather solve and fix the problem if I possibly can. Apr 25, 2015 at 14:54

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This is how I fixed things for me.

I dropped to tty1 using ctrl+alt+F1 and typed DISPLAY=:0 ccsm ctrl+alt+F7 I switched back and using CCSM I was able to enable to the Unity plugin for compiz and disable Framebuffer Object in the OpenGL plugin.

Then back to tty1 and

sudo apt-get install --reinstall ubuntu-desktop

I rebooted and everything is working fine.

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