With you on the âif only I had gone for the money path in lifeâ and turned
my efforts to being a commercial product . . . worthy of large sums of
money being brought to me in corporate wheel barrows, etc.
So, I downloaded a fresh daily yesterday, wiped the partition and tried for
the piggyback on the /home again . . . and that âthird timeâ failed to
provide a GUI. Next step will be to try again with a fresh /home user name
. . . and that will be the extend of it for awhile on the 18.04 testing.
Back over in Lu 18.04 typing this from a piggybacked /home, so it shouldnât
be an issue . . . but seemikngly is???
While I was testing the live DVD I logged out of the session, trying to
exit the session, but rather than reboot it just logged out, and then I
thought I had something when it wouldnât except âlinuxâ as the universal
live session username . . . so I searched google for the username and found
a ubuntu forum thread where the complaint was this same complaint . . . OP
couldnât log into a ubuntu-mate GUI as it âwasnât accepting his passwordâ .
. . . So, that did confirm my thought that this isnât a new issue, but an
olde one . . . for some users.
On another front, trying to follow your instructions to reboot into
ârecoveryâ mode showed âproblemsâ in the recovery menu, trying to âload
networkâ on the first try brought the opening âdpkgâ sequence of showing
the various functions it was loading, but then it stuck/froze on the
flashing cursor for several minutes . . . had to shut down with power
button, rebooted, skipped the ânetworkâ option, tried âdpgkâ . . . it found
â19â packages to download, but âfailed to fetchâ them (no surprise) . . .
something else happened so I again had to shut down with button . . .
rebooted into TTY and ran the upgrade . . . did not solve the GUI log in
problem.
Itâs interesting how the âliveâ session booted up shows none of these
problems, most all the apps seem to work and the GUI has lots of features,
but the install isnât working, and then under the hood seems to be âmessyâ
. . . like none of the previous distroâs have been included . . . and a
ârecoveryâ mode that doesnât ârecoverâ . . . .
Post back when Iâve tried again . . . .
n_s