No Home Screen menu after 19.1 (August update)

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I upgraded to the latest version of OSMC (August - Kodi 19.1) on my Raspberry Pi 3 but unfortunately after booting I am just presented with the background and no icons. The time updates so the system is running:

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I have tried removing the guisettings.xml file and also setting general.addonupdates = 0 (auto update i believe) incase an out of date add-on was causing an issue but (after mediacenter restart) this doesn’t help.

The skin is set to the default=“true” in the guisettings.xml file. I was using the aero skin (I think) prior to the update but not 100% sure.

Everything is working in the background as I can use Yatse remote to play media and play add-ons however I cannot get to the add-ons or settings screens to make other changes via the GUI.

I have also done apt update and apt dist-upgrade so everything should be fully up-to-date.

Any thoughts on how to get the menu back?

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Maybe first try this

kodi-send -a "Skin.ResetSettings"
kodi-send -a "reloadskin()"

Suggest to try the full .kodi removal. If it is working after that then just move the different folders (userdata and addons back one by one to see what cases the issue.

sudo systemctl stop mediacenter
mv ~/.kodi ~/.kodi-backup
sudo systemctl start mediacenter
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Thank you, the kodi-send commands did the job and have things back now.

Thanks again