Ok I will be honest and say I did not read all of the above
WHY!
I thought I had made a mess of my system so I wanted a clean install so I did just that! right down to wipe partitions.
After 4 attempts I got the advice install all levels including 4 and 5 so I did. result is this
I now have 2 kernels in grub.The lower version being default
I get "/usr/bin/mint-fortune: line 35: [: ==: unary operator expected" on the top line of terminal for no reason
If I move a window the graphics becomes scrambled.
I had to install almost everything from gstreamer by hand to get my Phillips web cam to work in cheese
I found out the hard way that after installing updates you could no longer unlock the "login in screen"
A friend has Russian language ( or something like it) in the second part of the menu but no where else!
Yes we both had the broken packages but just doing level by level it fixed itself
Google chrome tells me it's out out date but also say it's the most resent version so I can't add any extentions.
Skype refuses to show video ( yes I am using the beta download from skype )
Tomboy notes has appeared once on the menu bar in these installs.
Webcamstudio can not load virtual driver any more.
And yes the famous 64 bit flash player making talking sound like a Dalek being tickled ( for you Dr Who fans )
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAk2HjHS ... re=related
And I'm sure I missed something ....oh yeah
Before the update EVERY THING WORKED fine !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
If this is the result of a "rolling" distro I'm not impressed !
So where do I go from here ?????