Comment 37 for bug 1279762

You don't need to uninstall. Just log out and log into Ubuntu to do the
update. Worked for me.

Gerry
On Oct 1, 2014 5:16 AM, "peterkmurphy" <email address hidden> wrote:

> And I'm a Cinnamon user stuck on Ubuntu 13.10 that has been thinking of
> jumping ship to Linux Mint over this issue. It is not yet too late for
> myself, but seriously, Ubuntu team: there should be no issues that
> prevent people upgrading to a LTS release.
>
> Can we have a patch to the 13.10->14.04 upgrade process that doesn't
> require me to uninstall Cinnamon and then reinstall it again? Because
> that would be silly.
>
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> Title:
> upgrade to 14.04 from 13.10 or 12.04 failed - cinnamon fails to
> upgrade
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