Fresh install of 18.04 & can't log into GUI?

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#21

@wolfman:

OK, thanks for tidying up . . . I had hoped that I could have “solved” the
problem with re-gaining access to the old home folder with the data intact,
but indeed I can now log into the user GUI . . . so it’s more a “work
around” than a “solution” IMHO. It’s just odd that doing the re-badging of
another home folder did work with several other distros, including Lu
18.04, and I could log in via TTY, but not via GUI . . . oh well.

Still, as perhaps I reported earlier in this thread there seemed to be
“issues” in the recovery process, with errors or hangs . . . in “enable
networking” for instance, and other processes that perhaps could use some
“analysis” before the final flight tests and/or releases . . . ???

n_s

#22

Hi n_s,

I always use a root and home partition (sometimes with swap) for that just-in-case scenario:

:smiley:

#23

Hi n_s,

I always use a root and home partition (sometimes with swap) for that
just-in-case scenario:

@wolfman:

Alrighty, thanks for that link to the “something else” guideline, I believe
you had posted that previously in this thread, but I read through it again,
and there was a comment about, “Don’t use the same /home page if you are
moving from ubuntu to peppermint os, as the system config files may cause a
system crash . . .” . . . so possibly that was going on in going from
u-mate 16.04 to OpenSUSE LEAP and then back to u-mate 18.04?? But, in
doing essentially the “same” maneuver in another partition, going from
something “ubuntu” to something “LEAP-based” but back over to Lubuntu
18.04–all sharing the same /home folder . . . all was and remains “well.”
Perhaps Lubuntu is less “finicky”??

I was thinking that the newest system installer sort of sets things up as
it prefers them . . . and so as long as one system is using the /home
folder at a time, it would be OK–and the problems would be happening when
two different systems, other than say “ubuntu-based” flavors, but if I
tried to run ubuntu & OpenSUSE thru the same user name /home folder then I
could expect “conflicts” or problems to show up, etc.

Thanks for playing along,

n_s

#24

Hi @non_space,

if you mix and match different OSes, there may well invariably be system files that simply aren’t compatible among the different versions of Linux which would cause problems!. :smiley: Are you sorted now?. :smiley:

#25

wolfman
http://links.ubuntu-mate.community/wf/click?upn=KpA0bi-2BkZhBb1Bz6rWwl2vkp9WkK8C78oJcDRCkn-2FFXplxbyR-2B8GfXRcXGl16cBT_u3qLstk03BSHOCpEEC-2F9jWU3sa4qE0oJiIWEVqo0YoQXY9ZOd-2BzGYvkanecC07Ds1nOTDrocKrWizAz2LZ1uRjNifilHDDB1bTjflL9x5-2Bh5Tyw-2FwZta75YbGABzDPd-2BApIUTkX9LbWdkjv-2Bu26fmY3BJyUt5zNp6a9CayjUvSUW7ys-2BjEZd1Ky8e-2BIHInhqFfP5jnHDwfVeYWOq2HgGCHRaJZmhQmzl8l89ikFHTuY-3D
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April 17

Hi @non_space
http://links.ubuntu-mate.community/wf/click?upn=KpA0bi-2BkZhBb1Bz6rWwl2vkp9WkK8C78oJcDRCkn-2FFVadAQl-2Ffjv69qopAC3RP3Z_u3qLstk03BSHOCpEEC-2F9jWU3sa4qE0oJiIWEVqo0YoQXY9ZOd-2BzGYvkanecC07DsuW6G4YxAKQCd0OoYsS-2Bh1cKm04s8g9QZM7H-2FDUiL8k2BKGxdzNpOIYGbZnyEkD-2BRrCuROx3kGQFnbBb0OGf42kNh8-2FicikZOwLFDifN9o0aVsbmOlQ28R1WNyN9xdMz75OlrDmshrDqffD4Q9cjEUxr5brTlbGthBo8-2BJsGArNg-3D
,

if you mix and match different OSes, there may well invariably be system
files that simply aren’t compatible among the different versions of Linux
which would cause problems!. [image: :smiley:] Are you sorted now?. [image:
:smiley:]

@wolfman:

Appears that way, did a fairly large update/upgrade yesterday, but haven’t
restarted on it yet, otherwise U-MATE is operational . . . fully . . . .

n_s

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#26

Any reason why you have my profile in your reply?. :smiley:

#27

Any reason why you have my profile in your reply?. [image: :smiley:]

You are a rock star buddy . . . and I just wanted everybody to know . . . .
: - ))) Not sure, thought I had clipped everything but your
quote–replying via Gmail . . . maybe Gmail thinks you are a rock star . .
. yeah that’s it . . . ???!!!

n_s

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#28

Well I do sing now and then, mostly with 10 beers inside me and I play the guitar badly LOL!. :smiley:

#29

Well I do sing now and then, mostly with 10 beers inside me and I play the
guitar badly LOL!. [image: :smiley:]

The point is that you try . . . you make the effort to emote
vocally/aurally and “let it out” . . . others of us don’t, even with the
assistance of ten beers. : - ))

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