Mate + KDE now, not able to boot Mate

Support & Help Requests
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I was running Mate 17.04 then decided to dual boot with Kubuntu 17.04. Now I can’t boot up Mate, do KDE and Mate not play nice ? Is there a quick fix to this problem ? Any help/suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Bruce

2

There shouldn’t be a problem having two different flavours of Ubuntu simultaneously. What happens if you try to boot up Ubuntu MATE?

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See attached
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B96yb_u8UiCSek9kNnE0MjFZZzc4SmMycmREbi1ybnFlZHJ3/view?usp=sharing

4

And did you run fsck as it requested?

One of the problems could be the display manager. how did you install KDE?
if you installed the Kubuntu desktop I believe it changes the display manager to sddm instead of lightdm. not sure mate can run on sddm. But haven’t tried it here so can’t tell for sure.
If that is the case however you can switch back to lightdm with this command in a terminal dpkg-reconfigure lightdm

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When I run FSCK it returns: util-linux 2.29

When I run dpkg-reconfigure lightdm it returns command not found

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try dpkg-reconfigure gdm or sddm one of them should be installed.

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Both returned “not found”

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did you use sudo before the command?
and which version of ubuntu-mate are you using?

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Yes and this is what it shows - sh: sudo: not found

Version 17.04

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Sooooo, in the end I guess these two distros don’t really work well together in a dual-boot environment.
Lesson learned.

Thanks for input guys, just wasn’t meant to be.

Bruce