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Asked: 2010-12-21 09:24:03 +0800 CST

Desktop settings lost after unclean shutdown

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My laptop restarted because the battery ran out of juice. Now the Gnome settings are gone. The panels are looking very bad. I am hearing sounds that were not there before restart. Menus are not appearing nor are the launchers that I added to the panel. How do I get my previous settings back?

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    I was updating my system using apt-get update and apparently it had not finished when the system restarted. I just tried installing meld using apt-get install meld

    Then I got a message that I need to correct some error using command sudo dpkg --configure -a after that when I restarted my system everything was back to normal.

    This is similar to the same solution when there is an error while downloading: dpkg interrupted error while downloading

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