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I was running 12.04 and after an unusually long shutdown (3 minutes, no updates installed) most of my programs have lost partial to major functionality - menus don't work, cannot scale/resize minimize or close programs without using shortcut keys.

In addition, I only have one workspace available now too. Settings show 4 in number, but only one shows up, cannot switch to another.

Tried to fix the problem by upgrading to 12.10, but it still persists. Am I looking at a complete clean install?

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closed as too localized by Jorge Castro, Ringtail, Anwar, Stephen Myall, con-f-use Oct 23 '12 at 12:47

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With a somewhat vague description of the problem it is hard to give a really definitive answer.

The first question that comes to mind is: do you have a full hard drive?

Can you paste the output of typing the following into the command prompt?

dmesg
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