Ubuntu 12.04 changed itself to xubuntu and stopped working

[Petter Adsen]

On Sun, 2 Aug 2015 14:34:56 +0800
Bret Busby <bret.busby at gmail.com> wrote:
> Due to the message not having appeared and the delay involved, I
> reinstalled Ubuntu 12.04.
> 
> After the several hours that it took to install Ubuntu 12.04, I now am
> trying to get it working, so that I can again install mate and other
> packages.

There is an Ubuntu spin already set up with MATE, you know. You were
given a link to the homepage earlier in this thread. It might be
worthwhile to download an image so you have it available in the future.

You might also want to look into using apt-clone. It can be used to
take a "snapshot" of the repositories that are in use and which packages
have been installed, and then re-create that status later on another
installation.

> I keep getting an error relating to unfixable broken packages, which
> may be due to held packages.

Try running "sudo apt-get -f dist-upgrade".

> And, the last time that I rebooted, a few minutes ago, to get back to
> a working installation (which is Unbutu 14.04), after the last updates
> and package additions, the GRUB menu has reverted to the Debian GRUB
> menu.

Do you still have access to all your installations from the GRUB menu?
You could also run "sudo update-grub" from within Ubuntu, that should
overwrite GRUB. Make sure that it is set up correctly before doing so,
however.

Petter

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