I have no icons in 12.04 fresh install

[sirjoe25]

When I hover the mouse over where the icons should be (left side), I see arrows with the name of icons. I can still click them and use ubuntu, but can't sort what is wrong. I suspect it's with my graphics card? any idea for a first time user.

[jmfal]

Welcome to Ubuntu

In top right corner is icon (looks like a gear) click on it >> system settings>> my unity
check settings for launcher >>set to display

[sirjoe25]

I have tried just about every option in myunity. And still no luck. Here is a screenshot of my desktop

[sirjoe25]

So I poked around a bit and found some more info. I restarted and booted in recovery mode. I executed a dpkg (repair broken packages) and restarted into normal mode. The icons now showed. But, if I restart again, the icons are missing again. Any ideas?

[Finnicella]

Hi, I'm a beginner, but if nothingelse work, you can trie with:

unity --reset-icons
Bye

[sirjoe25]

no luck with the reset. There were a bunch of warnings and errors. Compiz (animation) error animation settings mismatch in "animation selection"... and other errors.

I think I am going to try to re-install and see what happens?

[Finnicella]

Before re-installing try only:

unity --reset
Bye