some icons in 11.10 unity launcher do not show up

[marcus aurelius]

hi,

completed a 5 hour upgrade to 11.10 from 11.04, major issues followed.

some of the buttons in the sidebar have no images, the image is of a white window.
the power button on the right hand top corner of the desktop is not showing logout and shutdown.
the files and folder icons also have the white window image. including libreoffice files.

the guest login looks awesome! inference - problem with my login only.

please help me fix this and see how beautiful the 11.10 version is.
my competency level in ubuntu is - rookie!

i get empty space where icons should be in unity, and grey boxes with unity 2D.

[Per Vikman (pelleve)]

Made this entry in #873545 item #14:

White icons and no logout button was my problem too after upgrading from 10.04 to 11.10 through the releases 11.10 and 11.04.

Found a solution by coincidence: had also a mismatch in wallpaper resolution and opened the select wallpaper (background) menu by right clicking on the desktop.

When clicking on the different themes I discovered that "Ambiance" and "Radiance" triggered the correct appearence to the white icons. And also showed the log out button at the clock.
Selecting the 'contrast' themes regenerated the white icons.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Daniel Ejsing-Duun (zilvador)]

Possibly a duplicate of bug 918185

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

Marcus, could you please attach a screenshot of the problem you're having? And if it's multiple problems then please try to log them as separate bugs.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for unity (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for unity because there has been no activity for 60 days.]