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nothing on screen only wallpaper

Asked by Hugh-hfegan

I done a upgrade from 10 10 to 11 04 today when i had finished, my computer is now nothing more than a big picture with back ground light there is no icons / start stop /date or anything, the only thing I can do is <control alt and delete > will give me a option to shut down, have tried the recovery option made no difference, tried a older kernel they all seemed to be removed with the upgrade, cannot do anything at all with the computer other than change the wall paper by right clicking on the screen and the option for change back ground / create folder and some other option that are available from this option or shut the computer with the above mentioned shut down

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Sam_ (and-sam) said : 		#1

> tried a older kernel they all seemed to be removed

Former image 2.35.28 is still there only headers are removed.
grub.cfg says
submenu "Previous Linux versions" {
menuentry 'Ubuntu, mit Linux 2.6.35-28-generic' --class ubuntu --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os
- - - - - - > snip
menuentry 'Ubuntu, mit Linux 2.6.35-28-generic (Recovery Mode)' --class ubuntu --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os

Did you try to choose 'Classic-desktop' on GDM login screen?
http://askubuntu.com/questions/28050/how-do-i-use-use-the-classic-gnome-desktop

Which graphic card, Intel?

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Hugh-hfegan (hugh-hfegan) said : 		#2

Thanks Sam, for the feed back, you indicate that the older kernel are still there, but when I pick them in grub they do nothing, the message I get is ( error: file not found - error: you need to load kernel first - press any key to continue) also in grub I have Mint 10 on another drive, it may have something to do with the settings that is used on the compiz config here that has done something (may be wrong) the graphic card is a NVIDIA not sure of which one, also you indicated that I try classic-desktop on login screen this option I do not get at start up, it just logs in when I select it from the grub.
Sam
All is there but I have no access to it, is there anyway that I can reset or reload the whole thing and not keep the settings I have there or can I get access to compiz config to see what the setting are or maybe change them to see if this helps, came this be done in the terminal, if so how can I access it and what can be done.
know a little about the computer but not a lot, will need a good brief on how to, if anything can be done - Please.
Regards Hugh

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Best Sam_ (and-sam) said : 		#3

> classic-desktop on login screen this option I do not get at start up, it just logs in when I select it from the grub.

Session autologin enabled makes things rather worse than better. No idea why they just don't through it over board or hide it somewhere.
Switch to tty (virtual console text mode only) after login: ctrl+alt+f1
Login with username and passwd.
Type:
unity --reset

Switch back to GUI: ctrl+alt+f7

Or reboot from tty:
sudo reboot

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Hugh-hfegan (hugh-hfegan) said : 		#4

Thank you Sam this reset 11.04 back to normal everything seem to be going again

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Hugh-hfegan (hugh-hfegan) said : 		#5

Thanks Sam_, that solved my question.