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I've just upgraded from 10.04 -> 10.10 -> 11.04 and after the reboot, I'm presented with my desktop wallpaper, a mouse cursor.... and that's it!

I was able to get to firefox, but only by hitting the power button, clicking Help, and then selecting "Get help online".

Alt-F2 doesn't show the run dialog, so I'm unable to get to a terminal or anything!

Any ideas or help?

update : I was able to boot in recovery mode and started the root terminal with network access. apt-get remove ubuntu-desktop && apt-get ubuntu-desktop did not change anything

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    Select 'Ubuntu Classic (No effects)' at the login screen, that should get you to the desktop. – mikewhatever Sep 15 '11 at 05:00
  • try to reinstall ubuntu desktop with sudo apt-get remove ubuntu-desktop && sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop – Alvar Sep 15 '11 at 05:24
  • @mikewhatever, there's no login screen - it automatically takes me to the desktop. – nickf Sep 15 '11 at 07:06
  • @Alvar, I can't get to the terminal..! – nickf Sep 15 '11 at 07:06
  • @nickf yes you can, enter in recovery console, then you should get to a prompt. you should always have a command for opening a terminal! I have F4. – Alvar Sep 15 '11 at 13:26
  • Alt-Ctrl-T opened the terminal for me in the end. – nickf Sep 16 '11 at 04:42
  • cool, did my suggestion work? :) – Alvar Sep 16 '11 at 09:23
  • @Alvar, I'm not sure! Initially not, but I tried a heap of things, including doing that again. Running gnome-panel got the header panel back again, which helped. From there I was able to get to the config and turn off the auto-login, and then I was able to choose a different desktop from the login screen. I'm currently running on Unity now, and it's fine. Thanks for the help. – nickf Sep 20 '11 at 13:02

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