I NEED HELP! UPGRADED FROM 6.0 to 8.04 and lost all all text and background

[kwamex]

After I upgraded from the update manager and restarted i lost all text all letters are now replaced with square boxes...also my background is completly black...all applications work fine games, web, etc..just no text or background...i can not navigate with text...icons show up just fine...what can i do???


i have no cd

please help...any commands that can restore my settings so i can have the desktop look normally...i checked and i knw i defintely upgraded fully to 8.04..let me know please....

[mkvnmtr]

That happened to me when I tried to upgrade from 6.06. I believe we lost the fonts. Ther should be a simple way to fix it but I just installed 8.o4.1 from a live disk. If you have things you want to save wait and someone should be able to tell you how to fix it. If you don't have any thing to save just do a fresh install.

[Sef]

Locked. Duplicate Post (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=932134).