[lubuntu-users] No desktop appears on reboot of lubuntu 17.10

[Harry Putnam]

[Please note that I tried to send this message with the requested
files attached but a moderator of this newsgroup sent back a message
saying moderaters had to review the message ... but that it is
probably considered too big (too much data) and will probably not be
posted

Considering that information I am reposting the message but have
made the files available at:

  zeus.jtan.com/~reader/vutxt/disp.cgi

Three files will be displayed on one web page.

The filenames will indicate the content:

  lubuntu-users-xsession-errors.txt
  lubuntu-users-xsession-errors.old.txt
  All-installed-with-version.txt

The data is separated by Filename, but some of it is pretty long.]


Israel <israeldahl at gmail.com> writes:

[...]

Harry wrote:
>> So a black screen but no panel or icons, and its not possible to get
>> any response with mouse

[...]

Israel replied:

> Hi Harry,
>
> It would benefit us to learn the contents of your xerrors, as I suspect
> this would give an indication as to what went wrong.

First, a bit of new information.  The black screen I described seemed
I could do nothing there... however later I thought about having
installed `xbindkeys' and setting some key combos to call specific
apps.

Turns out my .xbindkeysrc.scm key combos do work. I have no panels or
icons, just a black screen, but the keycombos of my xbindkeys setup do
allow me to start applications.

[...]

> ~/.xsession-errors
>
> and
>
> ~/.xsession-errors.old

I'm attaching both at the end.
I see mention of several errors in those files but it is not clear to
me what to do about any of them.

[...]

> Did you install any software on top of the vanilla Lubuntu install?

I'm not real sure what you mean above... I did install a fair bit of
stuff with `aptitude' (similar to apt-get).

I don't really see any way to provide a list of installed with dates
of install, but I am attaching a list of all installed and the
versions with:

  dpkg-query --show | awk '{printf "%-45s %s\n", $1, $2}'