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Latest upgrades destroyed my desktop

From Gary Dale@21:1/5 to All on Tue Dec 3 18:50:01 2024

I'm running Debian/Trixie on an AMD64 system.

After doing my usual apt update, apt full-upgrade, apt autoremove this
morning. my desktop has been largely destroyed.

When I tried to reboot after doing the upgrade and remove, the system
refused to shutdown. Instead the disk activity light was mostly solid
for the next 3 hours and the system was stuck on the sddm login screen.
The system was unresponsive.

When I eventually did the sysreq reboot sequence, it came back up but
with Wayland set rather than X11. Logging in showed that the Wayland
settings were not what I had used last time I tried Wayland. When I
logged out and switched to X11, things were better but in both cases,
the applications menu was empty. Doing another reboot didn't help.

I've got the applications that had been running on virtual desktop 1
(Firefox & Thunderbird), plus gkrellm which had been on 2 but now shows
up on 1 instead. Other apps (except those in the system tray) are not available. I had to use alt-F2 to run Konsole to be able to manually
launch applications.

Is there an easy way to get the application menu back?

Thanks for any advice.

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