<div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 6:57 PM, Carl Yarbrough <<a href="mailto:cybrough@comcast.net">cybrough@comcast.net</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> I just installed xubuntu 9.10 three times becasue each time I did an update it broke my install. Once I both panels and then I lost the window manager. Is there a way to avoid this and still get needed updates? </blockquote></div> If you lose your panels, see <a href="https://help.ubuntu.com/community/XubuntuPanels">https://help.ubuntu.com/community/XubuntuPanels</a> Also, next time if something goes wrong, first try to mail this mailinglist as we can often provide much easier solutions than reinstalling your whole system. (For example, you could've retrieved your window manager by pressing Alt+F2 and running xfwm4.) Best, -- Vincent