[ubuntu-uk] Lost Icons

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On 21 August 2010 16:46, Neville Crook <neville at thecrookfamily.co.uk> wrote:

>   No not a new Dan Brown book but a problem with my latest update of
> 10.04.
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> I have two systems working 10.04 one on a partitioned HDD Desktop and one
> on an external HDD connected to my laptop.
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> Both systems loaded via Wubi, the desktop does not always load cleanly but
> after a couple of soft reboot manages OK.
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> Now I have a further problem with the desktop.  A couple of days ago the
> normal Ubuntu update manager message appeared.  When I maximised it the page
> was blank.  I thought nothing of it and loaded from the menu Update Manager
> and updated the recommended updates. After rebooting I noticed that a number
> of the Icons in the menus had gone missing.  For instance under Graphics the
> icon is there for Picasa and Open Office .org Drawing, but not Document
> viewer and F-Spot viewer.
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> When I opened Chrome the little tab icons for closing and adding another
> tab (x and +) were replaced by a red square. Firefox is not affected and
> whilst I have not tried every other piece of software. This problem does not
> seem to affect any other programs.  The vid driver is Nvidia accelerated
> graphics driver (version current)
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> Whilst I have some knowledge of using Terminal I have mostly used the easy
> way of adding program and trouble shooting.  The computer also has Win 7 and
> this works perfectly so probably not a hardware issue.
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> Any ideas?
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Hi, you could try re-installing the desktop, as a precaution backup your
data first.

sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop

-Mark
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