Ugrade abortion

[Bret Busby]

On 20/1/22 7:46 am, Bret Busby wrote:
> On 20/01/2022, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, 19 Jan 2022 at 21:47, Bret Busby <bret.busby at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> I have downloaded the ubuntumate 21.10 iso and written it to a usb
>>> drive, and booted it.
>>>
>>> It is unusable.
>>>
>>> It has no panel or taskbar or menu's. I can get a terminal window and
>>> that is all.
>>>
>>> In doing ls, it shows ubiquity and desktop, in illegible colouring
>>> (what brightspark imposed green on white?)
>>
>> Sounds like it is having graphics driver problems to me.
>>
>> Do you have another working spare PC? Try Ventoy. It lets you make a
>> multiboot key by just copying ISOs to it. It's very easy and
>> versatile.
>>
>> https://www.ventoy.net/en/index.html
>>
>> I'd suggest sticking a few ISOs on it.
>>
>> Lubuntu or Xubuntu for very low-end, no 3D usage at all.
>>
>> And maybe vanilla Ubuntu with GNOME, which is the most-tested flavour.
>>
>>> Running df -h shows it has a cow in it.
>>
>> Can't work that out at all.
>>
>> COW as in Copy On Write? Is the drive ZFS?
>>
> 
> I have never wittingly used ZFS - it is too advanced for me.
> 
> The cow thing was in the leftmost column of the df -h output ;
> /cow
> 
> Out of interest, as I was getting nowhere with the 21.10 iso in the
> live mode, I rebooted the computer into a 20.,10 installation, and it
> appears to be working okay.
> 

My last message above, was sent from UbuntuMATE 16.04, running on my 
most powerful hardware.

This message is sent from the 20.10 installation on the computer upon 
which, the upgrade aborted.

System Profiler shows (Summary only):

"
Computer
Summary
Computer
Processor	Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2430M CPU @ 2.40GHz
Memory	16243MB (1690MB used)
Machine Type	Notebook
Operating System	Ubuntu 20.10
User Name	bret (Bret Busby)
Date/Time	Thu 20 Jan 2022 07:54:26
Display
Resolution	1920x1080 pixels
OpenGL Renderer	GeForce GT 520M/PCIe/SSE2
X11 Vendor	The X.Org Foundation
Audio Devices
Audio Adapter	HDA-Intel - HDA Intel PCH
Audio Adapter	HDA-Intel - HDA NVidia
"

Interestingly, whilst displayed in the application output, both the 
Storage, and, Printers, parts, are missing from the report generated 
using the Generate Report functionality in the application, which is 
needed to be used, for copying and pasting the text of the output.

-- 
Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
(UTC+0800)
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