Ubuntu 13.04 / Parallels 8 - no menus

I've just upgraded Ubuntu from 12.10 to 13.04 under the latest release of Parallels 8 on a MacBook Air running 10.8.3

On the first reboot after upgrade I had the side bar but the main screen was black. I disabled 3D acceleration under the VM settings and rebooted to just the desktop with a parallels folder (no side bar or menu). I then was able to reinstall Parallel Tools from terminal, which normally fixes things, and rebooted the VM. No dice.

Enabled 3D acceleration - same problem.

Any pointers?

 

Yeah, I've got pretty much the same situation.

 

Alright - well, creating a new user account, and everything seems OK. So.... some issue w/ migration from 12.0.4 to 12.10 to 13.0.4. I guess I'll try deleting prefs from the old upgraded user account, until it starts working again.

Update: Nope, couldn't figure out what to do to get the old account working again. Still waiting for a fix. Parallels tech support, private message me if you want specific log files, etc. to help narrow down what's happening.

 

Well I managed to get 13.04 running from a fresh install from the ISO image, but no joy on the upgrade.

Deleted the old one and will play with the new one.

 

I had the same issue after upgrading from 12.10 to 13.04. However, disabling 3D acceleration and then removing and reinstalling Parallels Tools resolved it.

 

The next post has the right answer:

Get a shell:
$
rm ~/.config/dconf/user
setsid unity

To get a shell, if you have access to nothing other than Parallels Shared Folders on the desktop, you can find Terminal by searching in that folders window.

Or use Parallels > Devices > Keyboard > <Ctrl><Alt><F1> to get to a console login
-or per Mac keyboard-
Fn + control + option + F1

To get back to Ubuntu desktop
Fn + control + option + F7

 

Unfortunately, 'dconf reset' solution did not work for me.
An error occurred with 'dbus-launch blahblah: : Child process exited with code 1'..

Removal of "~/.config/dconf/user" file works, instead.

 

Excelent.

This worked for me.
Thanks

 

Removal of "~/.config/dconf/user" (followed by a reboot) works for me as well.

Thank you!