Video Problem Upgrading Mint8 > Mint9

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Video Problem Upgrading Mint8 > Mint9

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I have a problem upgrading from Mint8 to Mint9. I followed the upgrade instructions to the letter and rebooted hoping to find all home and program settings. When I log into the GUI I have a task bar minus the far-left Mint Menu, and right network and sound volume icons and no calendar. They are just blank spaces, right or left-clicking in these areas is like clicking on a blank area of the bar.

This might be a video or compiz problem but I cannot improve the display with settings from right-click desktop/appearance prefs.

The display may have been working before restoring my Mint8 settings through MintBackup/Restore. I'm about ready to try a reinstall unless someone can point me to a solution.

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Re: Video Problem Upgrading Mint8 > Mint9

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Open up your Home folder, press CTRL + H (shows all hidden folders and files in Nautilus), and delete the ".gnome", ".gnome2", ".gnome2_private", ".gconf", and ".gconfd" folders. Restart X (i.e. log out and log back in), and the problem should be fixed. Note that in the process, you'll lose all custom backgrounds, themes, icons, panels, etc. you have, so make sure you save them somewhere safe if you want to use them again.
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Re: Video Problem Upgrading Mint8 > Mint9

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vincent wrote:Open up your Home folder and delete the ".gnome", ".gnome2", ".gnome2_private", ".gconf", and ".gconfd" folders. Restart X (i.e. log out and log back in), and the problem should be fixed. Note that in the process, you'll lose all custom backgrounds, themes, icons, panels, etc. you have, so make sure you save them somewhere safe if you want to use them again.
Thanks Vincent, this gets me back to where I can find my way. I'm not sure why this happened but it was time to reconfigure anuway.
Stew
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Re: Video Problem Upgrading Mint8 > Mint9

Post by vincent »

This happens because GConf settings often break from release to release, especially if Gnome happens to go through a lot of changes. This particular problem was very commonplace amongst users updating from Mint 8 to Mint 9...personally, I'm surprised Clem didn't mention it in his tutorial.
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