Upgrade from 16.04.x to 18.04.3 broke system - was Upgrade paths from UbuntuMATE 16.04.x and 18.04.x to 19.10

Little Girl littlergirl at gmail.com
Tue Oct 15 00:32:47 UTC 2019


Hey there,

Bret Busby wrote:
>Little Girl wrote:

>> There is no spoon.

>But, ..."Just a spoonful of sugar..."

If only...

>The suggested remedy at the URL;
>
>"
>If your graphics card is Nvidia, follow these steps:
>
>In the GRUB menu at startup, press e; then,
>Use the arrow keys to replace quiet splash with no splash or
>nomodeset. Then press the Ctrl+x key combination to boot.
>"
>
>worked - thank you for that.
>
>I replaced "quiet splash" with "nomodeset".

I'm glad it worked.

>Now, ....
>
>as mentioned, the affected computer, is the one where a previous
>problem caused me to lose the GUI for my primary user account,
>leading me to set up a secondary user account for which the GUI
>worked.
>
>Now, after the upgrade from 16.04.x to 18.04.3, the secondary user
>account GUI appears to work okay, but (I had hoped that the upgrade
>would fix the panel problem causing the GUI problem in my primary
>user account, but, it did not), now, when I use the switch user
>facility, when I try to log in as the primary user, I log in, and,
>am returned to the primary user login screen.
>
>Can this be fixed, and, if so, how?

This page is pretty old, but one of the people who used it posted not
all that long ago, so maybe it will be of some use:

https://askubuntu.com/questions/628974/ubuntu-14-04-returns-to-login-screen-after-login

-- 
Little Girl

There is no spoon.




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