failed upgrade from 12.04 to 14.04

[Doug Stewart]

On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 5:15 PM, darwinsurvivor at gmail.com <
darwinsurvivor at gmail.com> wrote:

> Doug S,
>
> Assuming you installed mate through a PPA, the PPA would have been
> disabled during the upgrade. To get Mate working properly again, you will
> need to add the *new* PPA for your new version of Ubuntu and most likely
> reinstall mate (so it has the newest version).
>
>
> ~Doug P.
>
> Yes I understand this. But I have a dead system. It stops after i put my
password in and press enter. The mouse still works but there is no prompt
and no Icons to press

Doug S


>
> On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 1:47 PM, Stephen M. Webb <
> stephen.webb at canonical.com> wrote:
>
>> On 08/13/2014 04:04 PM, Doug Stewart wrote:
>> > On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 11:14 PM, Stephen M. Webb <
>> stephen.webb at canonical.com <mailto:stephen.webb at canonical.com>> wrote:
>> >
>> >     On 08/12/2014 10:15 PM, Doug Stewart wrote:
>> >     > Today my system said that I could upgrade from 12.04 lts to 14.04
>> lts, so i did.
>> >     >
>> >     > It appeared to install ok but---
>> >     >
>> >     > When it rebooted to finish the install it got to the login screen
>> and asked me for my password. I entered my
>> >     > password and then i got a rectangle in the upper left corner....
>> >
>> >     What desktop were you using before the upgrade?  Unity?
>> >
>> >
>> > I was using Mate
>>
>> Well, Mate is not supported by Ubuntu.  It is supported by Mint, and as
>> far as I understand it Mint does not support
>> upgrades as a policy.  Best of luck.  Perhaps if you can find an
>> appropriate third-party archive you can reinstall the
>> missing packages over top.
>>
>>
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