Ubuntu MATE 16.04 system freezes totally

[wolfman]

Did you follow this advice when creating your bootable media?:

Burn ISO's at the slowest possible speed

Hi all, as the title suggests, some and/or many problems with your installation can be avoided by burning the ISO file at the "SLOWEST POSSIBLE SPEED", most if not all burner apps will automatically choose the fastest speed available for your disk burner drive so it is important before you commit to burn a CD/DVD that you select the menu tab which controls the burn speed and select the lowest number on offer. Your burner drive may well support a burn speed of 20 X for DVD and 60 X for CD's a…

If you have a broken install, try running the following terminal command (Ctrl + Alt + t):

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install -f