Update for UbuntuMATE 16.04.6 broke the GUI

[Bret Busby]

On 21/08/2019, Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Aug 2019 at 22:27, Bret Busby <bret.busby at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hello.
>>
>> A few hours ago, I performed a system update on one of my UbuntuMATE
>> 16.04.6 systems, and it has broken the system.
>>
>> The panel in the GUI is broken, and the taskbar has been eliminated,
>> by the update, rendering the GUI unusable.
>>
>> Is it possible to reverse the system update?
>
> What do you mean by 'system update'?
>

Running that "Software Updater" thing, and "Install now" for updates

> What does this show
> sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
>


I will have to boot up the system.

Now, the taskbar in UbuntuMATE 18.04, has also been destroyed.

Because of the increasingly malicious behaviour of the version of
Midori, that is for 18.04, I removed the launcher icon from the panel,
and, doing that, broke the panel, and, after rebooting, several times,
to get the panel back, open applications no longer show in the
taskbar.

The GUI is decomposing, in 16.04 and 18.04.

So, in a few hours or so, I will try to reboot the broken 16.04 system.

It appears safest, to avoid software updates

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Bret Busby
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West Australia
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