VBox upgrade now no konsole and menu's diappear and apps not loading
Hello. First off I am a linux noob and a kubuntu noob. Any and all commands I have run have been courtesy of the 'net. If you can offer suggestions/support/desperately needed help please make the steps as easy to understand as possible.
I installed Kubuntu 15.04 about 2 week ago on VirtualBox and everything seemed to be fine. I did the "sudo apt-get dist-upgrade" to move to 16.04. Now it's weird. When I *first* login to Kubuntu from the VBox window, it always goes to text login (asking for "username"). I shut down the VBox and restart Kubuntu and it goes to the graphical login in screen. While it's a pain I can deal with it.
Here's where it's strange. There is a menu bar across the bottom showing the "K" menu. When I mouse over it, I see the initial menu options. This is not set up for the default (where it's full screen) but rather the traditional menu layout (main category -> subcategory -> sub-subcategory). If I put my mouse over one of the main menu category options, the secondary menu options open but the first (main) menu options become invisible. They are still there because if I move my mouse over where they should be the secondary menu options become visible.
Something is definitely weird.
So I type "konsole" and have the option of selection "Konsole" (Application listing?). But when selected the window never opens. None of the windows open. I can use the disappearing menu option to select another program and nothing ever pops up.
So is there something I've done wrong? Or do I need to reinstall 15.04 and ignore 16.04? Is there some way of uninstalling 16.04 (and all the upgrades/etc) and reverting back to 15.04?
I would prefer (if at all possible) to keep 16.04 because I did notice a significant increase is system load/launch time versus the 15.04 buld.
Again, I am a linux noob and if you can offer any help it would be greatly appreciated. If you can offer steps to follow if you could please make them easy to understand that would be even cooler.
Thank you and I hope anyone reading this has a great weekend.
Curious Guy
PS - If it will help I can post a couple of screenshots but I don't know how useful it'll be.
PPS - One other thing I forgot to mention is my VBox settings. Base memory is set to 8 GBs of RAM (from my available 16). I've also got the Video Memory set to the maximum (128 MB) from a 2 GB card. I've also set VBox to run using the dedicated video card. Display Acceleration is set to 3D.
I installed Kubuntu 15.04 about 2 week ago on VirtualBox and everything seemed to be fine. I did the "sudo apt-get dist-upgrade" to move to 16.04. Now it's weird. When I *first* login to Kubuntu from the VBox window, it always goes to text login (asking for "username"). I shut down the VBox and restart Kubuntu and it goes to the graphical login in screen. While it's a pain I can deal with it.
Here's where it's strange. There is a menu bar across the bottom showing the "K" menu. When I mouse over it, I see the initial menu options. This is not set up for the default (where it's full screen) but rather the traditional menu layout (main category -> subcategory -> sub-subcategory). If I put my mouse over one of the main menu category options, the secondary menu options open but the first (main) menu options become invisible. They are still there because if I move my mouse over where they should be the secondary menu options become visible.
Something is definitely weird.
So I type "konsole" and have the option of selection "Konsole" (Application listing?). But when selected the window never opens. None of the windows open. I can use the disappearing menu option to select another program and nothing ever pops up.
So is there something I've done wrong? Or do I need to reinstall 15.04 and ignore 16.04? Is there some way of uninstalling 16.04 (and all the upgrades/etc) and reverting back to 15.04?
I would prefer (if at all possible) to keep 16.04 because I did notice a significant increase is system load/launch time versus the 15.04 buld.
Again, I am a linux noob and if you can offer any help it would be greatly appreciated. If you can offer steps to follow if you could please make them easy to understand that would be even cooler.
Thank you and I hope anyone reading this has a great weekend.
Curious Guy
PS - If it will help I can post a couple of screenshots but I don't know how useful it'll be.
PPS - One other thing I forgot to mention is my VBox settings. Base memory is set to 8 GBs of RAM (from my available 16). I've also got the Video Memory set to the maximum (128 MB) from a 2 GB card. I've also set VBox to run using the dedicated video card. Display Acceleration is set to 3D.
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