I reinstalled Quantal from scratch, and the behavior persists: When trying to launch into Unity, I am immediately dumped to the shell, and then lightdm restarts. Again, the only session that works for me is Classic Gnome, however, even there launching either Firefox or Thunderbird result in the same action -- me being dumped to the shell and then returned to lightdm.
This is really frustrating. Everything worked perfectly on my Dell XPS 15z, and I realize that the only main difference between my current Asus G75 and that Dell is the fact that the Dell had nVidia Optimus on board, which means that it would run on an Intel graphics card most of the time. And even then, when testing Bumblebee's "optirun", I never had an issue with the discrete nVidia card. However, now, with this Asus laptop having a dedicated nVidia 660M GTX, it seems as if the functionality of Ubuntu (I know -- it's only alpha) has gone to hell. How can I help test this so that someone can fix this? Heck, I even had to resort to a PPA in order to install nvidia-current in the first place.... Sorry for the rant, but nut being able to use Thunderbird for emailing and calendaring poses a nightmare here at work. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1039148 Title: When launching Thunderbird (or Firefox), the Desktop session crashes To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity/+bug/1039148/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
