Update for UbuntuMATE 16.04.6 broke the GUI

[Bret Busby]

On 25/08/2019, Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 24 Aug 2019 at 21:28, Bret Busby <bret.busby at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On 21/08/2019, Bret Busby <bret.busby at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > 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.
>
> Try logging in as a different user, that will tell you whether it is
> your profile that has been messed up or whether it is something system
> related.  If you have not got a second user configured then make one,
> it is very easy.
>

Okay.

On both the 16.04.6 and the 18.04.3 systems, the test gives the same
result; for the second user, everything seems to be okay - the panels
are where they are expected, and, functional.

How do I access, or, reset, my profile for my primary account?

>From memory, before GUI's. on a UNIX System V system, the user's
profile was stored in a . file or a .profile file.

Upon viewing a .profile file, with a text editor, I do not see any
reference to a GUI or GUI settings.



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