24.04 Upgrade Issues

[Liam Proven]

On Sat, 30 Nov 2024 at 21:46, Jay Ridgley <jridgley2 at austin.rr.com> wrote:
>
> First the upgrade from the pop up window  announcing the availability of
> 24.04

Which pop up window?

> failed and booted me to a command line.

How do you mean "failed"? What happened? What didn't? What did it say?
Did you write anything down?

> After research I found an alternate start: apt --fix-broken install

SOP for failed package installs. OK. So, you did the upgrade,
something didn't work, but it booted? Then you tried this, and that
completed? Do I have it right?

> after which I did a manual upgrade, which worked.

What does this mean? What's "did a manual upgrade"? What did you type?
What happened?

>  However when I booted
> the resulting system (I issued a shutdown - r now), I was presented with
> a tty login, not a one for GUI.

OK...

> I poked around

At what, where, how?

> and finally was presented
> with a GUI login.

How? What desktop? What display server? What GPU? What drivers?

> After doing a login from there I was able to get all
> my workspaces up(4) and several applications scattered around them.

See my previous line!


> My question is: How do I get a GUI login screen as the default, upon boot?

And again.

You are missing out almost all the detail we need to work out what's
going wrong.

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