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I am relatively new to Ubuntu having run 10.04 for just over a year without a single glitch of any magnitude. I decided to upgrade, which was certainly a mistake but am trying to correct for the results of my status as a Linux novice.

I am running a Dell Evo. I attempted to upgrade to 13.10 and the installation hung. I did a little research and found that sometimes a USB keyboard causes a failure. I replaced with a PS2 and the installation went without issue. Restarting the system after install, I found that all personal items were on the desktop and accessible but all the pinned programs, software icons on the left side were absent.

Through a link on my desktop I was able to get to the web and began reading. I discovered what may be my major error. I failed to upgrade step by step through each new version. Because everything I have is cloud backed up, I decided to reinstall a new version alongside the partially operative version but found that I could not close the browser. After exhausting other options, I did a hard restart and installed another version alongside. Starting that installation gave me a totally blank background. The only action possible was a right click that allowed the creation of a new file.

I am now considering either a reformat or a new hard drive and a totally clean install of 13.10. Any thoughts?

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As the duplicate question did not help, lets see if this will help....

First try to reset Unity and Compiz

Go to tty1 (crtl+alt+F1) log in (this can be done from a terminal in the desktop if that will load or recovery mode(with networking))

dconf reset -f /org/compiz/
setsid unity
unity --reset-icons

Source for above code

If resetting does not work:

Before doing a complete reinstall you can try to reinstall Unity it might fix the missing files. 

sudo apt-get clean

to clear all downloaded packages, in case one is corrupted then 

sudo apt-get --reinstall install ubuntu-desktop

to reinstall Unity

If after reinstalling if you still have no desktop try using dconf again and see if this time it will work.

If after all this you still have not desktop, you may need to do a reinstall or get some more competent help....

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