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How do I solve this problem? Somebody told me to do it (unity --replace) on this question Why is my desktop background black after upgrade to 13.04? and now it's stuffed.

When I run unity I get the following error:

compiz (core) - Info: Loading plugin: core
compiz (core) - Info: Starting plugin: core
unity-panel-service: no process found
Killed

My output from running sudo apt-get install --reinstall unity-services and sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop are:

[sudo] password for brentonhorne: 
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 29.5 kB of archives.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ raring/main unity-services i386 7.0.0daily13.04.18~13.04-0ubuntu1 [29.5 kB]
Fetched 29.5 kB in 1s (20.1 kB/s)       
(Reading database ... 517097 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace unity-services 7.0.0daily13.04.18~13.04-0ubuntu1 (using .../unity-services_7.0.0daily13.04.18~13.04-0ubuntu1_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement unity-services ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Setting up unity-services (7.0.0daily13.04.18~13.04-0ubuntu1) ...

and

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
ubuntu-desktop is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

respectively.

Running sudo apt-get install dconf-editor gives:

[sudo] password for brentonhorne: 
Sorry, try again.
[sudo] password for brentonhorne: 
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package dconf-editor

EDIT:

unity-panel-service: no process found
compiz (core) - Info: Loading plugin: core
compiz (core) - Info: Starting plugin: core
Killed
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Missing unity-services package?

It seems you're missing the unity-services package or it is not correctly installed. Just do this on a terminal:

sudo apt-get install --reinstall unity-services

To ensure that no more packages are missing, try this also:

sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop

Bad user profile configuration?

Create a new user and test its session. If everything works ok on that user, then the problem is with your user profile. To properly reset all unity-related settings, do this:

sudo apt-get install dconf-tools
dconf reset -f /org/compiz/
unity --reset-icons
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  • Didn't work. I'll add the output to my question.
    – Josh Pinto
    May 4, 2013 at 9:37

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