[Bug 1767523] Re: Upgrade from Mate 17.10 failed due to Xwindows problem now dosn't install from 18.04 pendrive

[Carlos Sevcik]

I finally managed to install Ubuntu MATE 18.04 on my Lenovo All In One
520-277KL. But it was very bumpy (I am using Ubuntu since 2006), here is
my full story.

1-UM 17.10 installed after disabling UEFI in the bios and asked to wipe
out the disk and install letting UM 17.10 do its default instalation.
Later I repartitioned the disk to set a root partition (~100GB) and a
home partition (~900 GB).

2-Upgrading UM 17.10 to 18.04 resulted in inability to enter into my
account except using Ctl-Alt-F1. I tried fixing files in /etc/X11 with
no success. This led me to reinstall UM 18.04 from scratch following a
wipe disk and install (option 1 in the install menu). Here I probably
took the wrong decision, because and identical situation appeared later
at some point after installing UM 18.04 and it was solved by removing
the Nvidia configuration files from my account and erasing .Xauthority
and .xinputrc and rebooting my machine afterwards. I had to reinstall
the Nvidia drives afterwards.

3-The UM 18.04 installation from scratch wiping the disk and doing the
default installation seem to work, but created a 14 GB /dev/nvme0n1p1 in
addition to the /dev/nvme0n1 where it installed the boot loader. It also
created to additional partitions of ~100 GB and ~800 GB. The problem was
that  /dev/nvme0n1p1 was formated ext4 and set as root (/) including a
/home partition inside. Of course /dev/nvme0n1p1 was left out of space
almost immediately after I started installing software and before I
realized the mess. The disk had a 14 GB /dev/nvme0n1, 14 GB
/dev/nvme0n1p1 ext4, 512 MB /dev/sda1 with format labeled unknown, 108
GB /dev/sda2 ext4 and 823.1 GB /dev/sda3 ext4.

4- I decided once again to reinstall the system with option "do
something else" and ignored /dev/nvme0n1p1, set /dev/sda2 as / (root)
and /dev/sda3 as /home (both formated to ext4). Reinstalled the system,
since at some point of my previous buggy trials I could not log in into
my account using my password, in the final installation I created my
account allowing to enter directly (without asking for a password) into
my account. Finally I got a working system, although there is constant
error message at entering into my account indicating that an icon in the
panel closed unexpectedly, icon which I always have to restart. The
final bug is that doing all the tricks (User administration menu,
editing /etc/group to remove the no password login group) I cannot get
the startup login to ask for a password, it always goes straight into my
account, if I log out, the subsequent logins ask for a password as they
should. In the users and groups administration menu the use password to
login appears as active, but has no effect.

Boy, I like Ubuntu but such a buggy release is unacceptable. I hope all
this details help to fix the mess.

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Title:
  Upgrade from Mate 17.10 failed due to Xwindows problem now dosn't
  install from 18.04 pendrive

Status in grub-installer package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  LENOVO with uefi installation fails due to inability to write boot
  loader. Ubuntu MATE 17.10 worked OK  but update to 18.04 failed due to
  Xwinows configurtion. It was possible to login using Control-Alt-F1
  but xinit or startx gave errors and failed.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
  Package: ubiquity 18.04.14
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.15.0-20.21-generic 4.15.17
  Uname: Linux 4.15.0-20-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7
  Architecture: amd64
  CasperVersion: 1.394
  Date: Sat Apr 28 00:42:29 2018
  InstallCmdLine: file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu-mate.seed boot=casper initrd=/casper/initrd.lz quiet splash --- maybe-ubiquity
  LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu-MATE 18.04 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Release amd64 (20180426)
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   LC_NUMERIC=C.UTF-8
  SourcePackage: grub-installer
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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