Ubuntu Unity 22.10 missing Launcher & Menus

[Sorin Srbu]

On Thu, 2023-02-09 at 20:16 +0000, Grizzly via ubuntu-users wrote:
> Hi 
> 
> Subject says most of it really
> 
> was fine last night, shutdown, this morning 
> 
> Ubuntu Unity 22.10, I only have the wallpaper, no launcher, menu
> 
> Right click on wallpaper does nothing, Ctrl+Alt+F1 brings up a terminal
> 
> Tried recovery on 5.9.0-21-generic & 5.19.0-29-generic both the same
> 
> I did an Update & Dist-Upgrade cycle (to 5.19.0-31-generic) no change
> 
> checked that Ubuntu-Unity-Desktop is installed (ver 0.11)
> 
> I know I have seen this before a long time ago but don't remember the fix
> 
> Any help please

Hello!

I had this happen more than once when I upgraded from 22.04 to 22.10.
My google searches at the time implied this might happen when upgrading from
previous Kubuntu versions to 22.10 and that the only sure-fire way to avoid
problems like this was to do a fresh install of 22.10.

I choose not to, and reverted back to 22.04 instead, but added the plasma
team's (or whatever they're called) backports instead to get a slightly
newer KDE desktop - which was my original intention with this exercise.

YMMV of course!



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