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I had Ubuntu Gnome 13.10. installed, but it wasn't very stable, so I installed Ubuntu LTS 12.04 in its place, removing everything from /, but keeping /home.

Now I have several, but possibly related problems. A list of things I have noticed thus far:

  1. I cannot change the background picture. It simply won't change regardless of what is chosen from the menu.
  2. Changes to Unity sidebar do not persist between logins. The default icons return at every login.
  3. Changes to Deja dup do not happen - if I open the settings panel and close it again, the changes are gone. Backup can be started, but does nothing.

I tried removing settings from the desktop, but returning everything to default settings did just that, without removing the problem.

However, I have no problems installing new software or changing Compiz settings or having those persist.

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  • It could have something to do with old config files left in the /Home directory. Open this directory and hit Ctrl+H to make hidden folders visible (They will all be named in this manner .Name, e.g: .android .cinnamon .gnome on my system) You could try deleting these files for the applications you're having trouble with and then reboot your computer.
    – Merri
    Jan 16, 2014 at 16:02
  • I also thought that could be the case, and removed all the files that seemed relevant. Are there any specific ones I should be looking at, based on the problems I'm having?
    – krax
    Jan 16, 2014 at 16:38
  • I have no idea about specific files sorry, I've only used this method to fix an Opera install after an update.
    – Merri
    Jan 16, 2014 at 16:42
  • Tried purging and re-installing ubuntu-desktop and unity, didn't help.
    – krax
    Jan 16, 2014 at 16:45
  • Purging and re-installing deja-dup and duplicity didn't help with 3. either.
    – krax
    Jan 18, 2014 at 10:38

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This is only a partial solution, but since I did not manage to find the specific files responsible for the problems, but I removed all config files from /home and the problem was gone. First, of course, I got copies of everything. I could test and see where the problem was, but that would take a lot of work.

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  • for me, it was a simple permissions issue on ~/.config/dconf/user which was owned by root after doing upgrade. Changing the owner back to my user fixed all issues.
    – ruuter
    Jan 28, 2016 at 14:00

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