24.04 Upgrade Issues **FIXED**

[Jay Ridgley]

On 12/2/24 08:24, Jay Ridgley wrote:
> 
> Thanks Liam:
> 
> My responses are in line...
> 
> On 12/2/24 06:09, Liam Proven wrote:
>> 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?
> 
> The standard message that is displayed when NEW software is available 
> asking if you wish to upgrade now or later.
>>
>>> 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?
>>
> The screen went blank and the system rebooted. No message, nothing but 
> when it stopped I had a blinking cursor on the screen, NOTHING else.
> 
>>> 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.
> 
> I  entered the following commands:
> 
> 1st: sudo apt --fix-broken-install
> 2nd: sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade
> 
> That ran to completion leaving me with a blinking cursor on the screen.
>>
>> What does this mean? What's "did a manual upgrade"? What did you type?
>> What happened?
> 
> See above...
>>
>>>   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.
>>
> I used the command sudo shutdown -r now
> 
>> OK...
>>
>>> I poked around
>>
>> At what, where, how?
> 
> Various combinations of ctrl, alt, F1 ... F7
>>
>>> and finally was presented
>>> with a GUI login.
> 
> I have no idea which one worked.
>>
>> 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.
>>
> I am sorry but I did not take any notes. I am using the default desktop. 
> How do I find out what one that is? If you need that.
> 
> I have NOT done a reboot to see what happens....
> 
> I will try looking at the log files to see if I can find something...
> 
> Sorry,
> Jay
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> 
Thanks to every one, for putting up with me regarding this issue.

I discovered by asking with google that what needed to be done was the 
following:

sudo vi /etc/gdm3/custom.conf

find the setting for Wayland and uncomment the line

#WaylandEnable=false

Save the file and reboot my system.

MUCH BETTER for me!

Cheers,
Jay
-- 
Jay Ridgley
jridgley2 at austin.rr.com
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