Unity desktop icons and launcher disappeared. Must run Cinnamon in order to function

[Tom Oglesby]

Icons disappeared after update (sorry, not sure which one in January/February).
Ctrl Alt T does not open terminal, right click does not offer open terminal option in Firefox. Also I cannot open System,

I can do so with Cinnamon running.

You may want to disregard this, and I'll plug along until a fix magically appears in a future update. Cinnamon works ok.

Or I can launch Cinnamon and provide you with more info, if that would help

Tom

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: ubuntu-release-upgrader-core 1:16.04.24
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.13.0-38.43~16.04.1-generic 4.13.16
Uname: Linux 4.13.0-38-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.15
Architecture: amd64
CrashDB: ubuntu
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Sat Apr 7 12:08:03 2018
InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-07-18 (263 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 16.04.2 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release amd64 (20170215.2)
JournalErrors:
 Error: command ['journalctl', '-b', '--priority=warning', '--lines=1000'] failed with exit code 1: Hint: You are currently not seeing messages from other users and the system.
       Users in the 'systemd-journal' group can see all messages. Pass -q to
       turn off this notice.
 No journal files were opened due to insufficient permissions.
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: ubuntu-release-upgrader
Symptom: release-upgrade
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)