I have just upgraded my old Dell dektop from Ubuntu 10.10 to 12.04 using Canonical's official disk. So far I am the only user . When I log in (as myself) I see the standard wall paper but no icons menu bars task bars etc.
If I right click on desktop I get a few options to create new folder / document, re-arrange the (invisible) icons & "Change Ddesktop Background". The last option gives me a window to maintain several other "system" system settings. I cannot close this window. If there is no action, the screen goes blank but comes back again with some "movement" of mouse or keyboard. At this point is asks for a password to unlock the screen which works fine. The only "refined" way to logout, is by using Control - Alt - Delete which gives me a set eof tions to log out or shut down. This works well. How do I resolve this? At one stage I thought I had an issue with the screen driver but the behavior described above suggests that is not the real problem. I suspect that the software to manage the icons etc has has been invoked and this must be resolved at $ prompt. Can any one advise 1) How to get to $ prompt? 2) What to do when I get there? PS I am writing this message from another PC Regards Chris Allen -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
