It works for me now. The problem I'm seeing now is that the greeter does not use the German keyboard, but maybe I'm supposed to change the setting somewhere? In any case I think that's a separate bug.
** Changed in: unity8 (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete => Fix Released ** Changed in: mir Status: Incomplete => Fix Released -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to unity8 in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1543133 Title: Desktop: Black screen after logging into unity8 session Status in Mir: Fix Released Status in unity8 package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Bug description: On xenial amd64 desktop after logging into the unity8 session, I'm greeted by a black screen, no mouse cursor, nothing. Only Magic SysRq gets me out of the session. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04 Package: unity8 8.11+16.04.20160129-0ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-2.16-generic 4.4.0 Uname: Linux 4.4.0-2-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.19.4-0ubuntu2 Architecture: amd64 CurrentDesktop: Unity Date: Mon Feb 8 15:07:17 2016 InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-04-30 (283 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 15.04 "Vivid Vervet" - Release amd64 (20150422) SourcePackage: unity8 SystemImageInfo: Error: command ['system-image-cli', '-i'] failed with exit code 2: UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/mir/+bug/1543133/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp