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I installed Mint Cinnamon Wilma (22.0) a couple of weeks ago from scratch on my Lenovo Ideapad3 and replaced the presinstalled Windows lite.

Later on I upgraded to Xia (22.1) with mintupgrade. Everything worked fine until today. I used sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get upgradeto install latest updates. That's what I do all the time when I want to update my Linux systems. Everything worked fine so far but when I rebooted the system I didn't get a working desktop any more. The background wallpaper was missing and there was no menu available and CTRL ALT T didn't work either to open a console window to inspect the system. But with the context menu on the desktop I was able to open a console. Finally I found out how to fix the issue:

I invoked mintupdate and was surprised there were two updates available: A new kernel and a new graphics driver. sudo apt-get upgradedidn't report these packages as updatates - unfortunately. I then started the update and at the end rebooted the laptop. Now the normal desktop appeared again.


 

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