Greetings,
Seems like every time I update something breaks

. Earlier today, I received some updates via the Update Manager. I choose to upgrade to Ubuntu 14.04 (I believe was the version). When my machine rebooted, I noticed the login screen was different. A lot of light grey.
At first when I logged in, it gave me a "unable to launch startxfce4" error dialog and it stated it would revert back to the default. I got in after saying ok. Although, the options to shutdown, suspend, etc via the panel were all grayed out and unusable. When I tried to logout via the panel, it gave me an error and didn't. Adding, the auditing and services submerses were missing from the applications menu.
After a physical shutdown via the power button. Now when I enter my password at the login screen it flashes and returns to the login screen. I can still get through CTRL+ALT+F1, but I don't know how to fix this. My panel was highly customized so if there is a way I can do this without wiping everything that would be preferred.
Thank you,
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