After regaining input, I compared the reinstalled hal and mad other changes by comparing packages for gtk and glib with a working 9.10 32bit using synaptic. These were the changes:
Installed the following packages: libdbus-1-dev (1.2.16-0ubuntu9) libhal-dev (0.5.13-1ubuntu8) libhal-storage-dev (0.5.13-1ubuntu8) Reinstalled the following packages: gnome-mount (0.8-2ubuntu1) hal (0.5.13-1ubuntu8) hal-cups-utils (1.1.12+git20090826-0ubuntu8) libhal-storage1 (0.5.13-1ubuntu8) libhal1 (0.5.13-1ubuntu8) Installed the following packages: gnome-accessibility-themes-extras (2.28.1-0ubuntu1) Reinstalled the following packages: gnome-accessibility-themes (2.28.1-0ubuntu1) gtk2-engines (1:2.18.4-1ubuntu1) Removed the following packages: glib2.0 Removed the following packages: aria gps libglib1.2ldbl libgtk1.2 After rebooting, the icons retruned to the desktop, menus fuctioned properly, however the keyboard was inserting multiple characters for each keystroke. So I modified xorg.conf by commenting out: Option "AllowEmptyInput" "0" Still problems with upgrade. -- Upgrade amd64 9.04 to 9.10 fail system unusable https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/466749 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
