I did an update via: sudo aptitude update sudo aptitude safe-upgrade afterwards, when already having the issues, I removed the transitional -qt packages. Here the output as requested:
maarten@melcene:~$ apt-cache show unity-qt-default-settings Package: unity-qt-default-settings Source: unity-qt-default-settings Priority: optional Section: x11 Installed-Size: 36 Maintainer: Unity Qt Developers <unity...@lists.ubuntu.com> Architecture: all Version: 0.1.32 Replaces: unity-qt-session Depends: unity-2d-default-settings, libuqpanel0 (>= 0.4) Conflicts: unity-qt-session Filename: pool/main/u/unity-qt-default-settings/unity-qt-default-settings_0.1.32_all.deb Size: 3828 MD5sum: dcdd1a043089c0d2b0bd3e9dfbc2fc77 SHA1: 6e7e6c6ec7b322ee0a79c1932800a5b4b1657dc4 Description: dummy transitional package for unity-2d-default-settings This transitional package helps users transition to the unity-2d-default-settings package. Once this package and its dependencies are installed you can safely remove it. maarten@melcene:~$ apt-cache show unity-2d-default-settings Package: unity-2d-default-settings Source: unity-2d-default-settings Priority: optional Section: x11 Installed-Size: 132 Maintainer: Unity 2D Developers <unity...@lists.ubuntu.com> Architecture: all Version: 0.1.29~bzr46 Replaces: unity-qt-default-settings (<= 0.1.28) Provides: unity-qt-default-settings Depends: indicator-application, indicator-appmenu, indicator-datetime, indicator-me, indicator-messages, indicator-session, indicator-sound, unity-2d-launcher, unity-2d-panel, unity-2d-places, unity-2d-spread, metacity (>= 2.30.2-0ubuntu1upicek2), gnome-session-bin, gnome-settings-daemon, nautilus, policykit-1-gnome, gnome-power-manager, ubuntu-wallpapers, gtk2-engines-pixbuf, light-themes Conflicts: unity-qt-default-settings (<= 0.1.28) Filename: pool/main/u/unity-2d-default-settings/unity-2d-default-settings_0.1.29~bzr46_all.deb Size: 6608 MD5sum: b5d699f4b606fa4d0fb3c15a5704c74e SHA1: 2abb6f941c585067107e13649b2b47dbb3d35e34 Description: Default settings for Unity 2D This package provides common configuration files and gconf-defaults for Unity 2D. It also provides the logins session needed to start Unity 2D at login. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/705035 Title: Unity Qt session broken after an update -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs