Install on ubuntu 16.04 breaks desktop environment

[jaysudodeveloper]

I installed the 64 bit version of Nidium on ubuntu, ran it with example hello world app and whole system came to a halt and screen flickered then went blank. Did a reboot and my desktop environment is gone.

Looking at the install logs i had an issue with libEGL not being a symlink. Have no other information as because i have to do a reinstall to get access back.

[verpeteren]

Whoah, that is awfull.

Could you send us the install log, so that we can investigate the issue further?

• What ubuntu version are you running?
• What desktop/window manager was in use?
• What download did you choose?(Nidium_frontend_20170411_173155_ead8c7c0abcb8ede0c6dea9aea7b4a5018ad1edf_Linux_x86-64)

[jaysudodeveloper]

Where should i check for the install logs specifically, the ones i looked at were just after running the .run installer?
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
Default - Unity/compiz
Just clicked the linux download button so which ever version that is.

[paraboul]

Is this the same problem than : #52 (comment) ?

[jaysudodeveloper]

@paraboul im not sure, ill check and try there fixes and report back before i do a reinstall. when i think about i did notice that starting any unity based stuff i got an error about not know file associations or missing files.

[jaysudodeveloper]

Right so it was a number of problems. Firstly there was a need to use this fix for libs along with #52 and desktop environment was back. Not sure how stable it will be as a tried a lot of other fixes to try and get it working before trying above.

[verpeteren]

I'll try to reproduce this with a virtualbox image

[jaysudodeveloper]

Apologies, the two fixes mention did work for me and i got every thing back to normal. Just not sure if i broke anything else in the process of finding the two fixes. Im not familiar with .run installers, do they check for dependencies and self install missing ones, because if so it would seem that my DE broke because of a faulty nvidia driver being install in favour of a working one.

[verpeteren]

The problem is real and reproducable, the problem only happens when you install as root.

• download vm
  wget https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_HAFnYs6Ur-dkRldjJmTnZwejQ/view?usp=sharing

• Unzip vm
  7z x Ubuntu_16.04.2-VB-64bit.7z

• Start virtualbox and click the "new button"

  • set a name
  • select type = Linux,
  • select Version= Ubuntu (64-bit)

• Click "Next"

  • choose your memory e.g. "5120" MB
  • click "Next"

• Select "use an exsisting virtual hard drive file"

  • click the folder icon
  • navigate and select the vdi file that you just un-7z-ed and click "open"
  • click "create"

• Right click on your vm and start

  • enable devices - shared clipboard - bidirectional
  • click on 'osboxes' with password 'osboxes.org' (us keyboard)
  • open a terminal

• Become root
  sudo passwd root with password 'osboxes.org' (us keyboard)

  • fill in a new password 2x
    ````su -``` and fill in the new password

• Bownload nidium
  wget https://nidium.com/static/downloads/Nidium_frontend_20170412_192353_e5473b724489a606c735f2747d656bf55a7c5066_Linux_x86-64.run

• Make the installer executable
  chmod +x *.run

• Start it (as root)
  ./N<tab><enter>
y
enter

When the terminal is closed, the menu bar is empty, and the system will freeze.

[Mte90]

I can confirm the problem also on debian

[jaysudodeveloper]

@Mte90 are you able to fix issue using same method as I did ?

[Mte90]

I saw that #52 (comment) this fix issues on my DE that was going a little bit crazy