Ubuntu 19.04 upgrade

[AJB88]

Just wondered if anybody had done the Ubuntu 19.04 upgrade yet? I have and its buggered my system, wont login now, just going round in a loop at login screen. Upgraded through software centre from 18.10.

Tried lightdm instead of gdm3 with no look.

Dell XPS 13 9370 with the Intel UHD 620 graphics card.

[8bit]

I've not used Ubuntu in a long time but my experiences with major release upgrades was wholly negative. I would just back up my stuff and reinstall from scratch.

Usually I found the issues were to do with hardware drivers, most often graphics hardware. Can you get it to boot to single-user (maybe called recovery?) mode and log in via text console and look at log files?

[AJB88]

I can get into the terminal not really sure where to look though, I'm not a "power user"

[Taita]

Is it this year or next that Linux is ready for the desktop? I forget

[gutbobs]

I had similar last week and the fix was just to run an apt-get upgrade, apt-get update from the command line

[budgie smuggler]

Suggest you post on ubuntuforums.org, most likely somebody will have had the same issue.

I do sympathise, I've got a production server still half borked from trying to upgrade from 18.04.1 to 18.04.2. Ruby, PHP and Redmine plus something I've forgotten are completely broken and can't be repaired with apt because it's stuck with something depending on something depending on something which is not available.
You would have thought do-release-upgrade would simulate the upgrade before doing it...?

Edited by budgie smuggler on Tuesday 23 April 14:41

[AJB88]

Turns out its my user account that is the issue, created a new account from terminal and that logs in fine.

[Paul Drawmer]

I am also NOT a power user, but have been running Ubuntu LTS versions for ages, had far fewer problems than my one remaining dual boot system has with windoze.

I do stick to Long Term Support releases though. Currently on 18.04.2

[ging84]

Taita said:

Is it this year or next that Linux is ready for the desktop? I forget

It's pretty easy to remember, it's next year or sometimes this year but always one of the 2.

[AJB88]

Paul Drawmer said:

I am also NOT a power user, but have been running Ubuntu LTS versions for ages, had far fewer problems than my one remaining dual boot system has with windoze.

I do stick to Long Term Support releases though. Currently on 18.04.2

When I bought the machine I said to myself I would stick to the supported LTS versions, but I'm a sucker for new stuff and decided to jump onto the non-LTS versions haha.

[james_gt3rs]

Taita said:

Is it this year or next that Linux is ready for the desktop? I forget

Still funny each year

[Jinx]

Good that you sorted it - I'm from the back up the home folder and do a fresh install school of thought (if only windows 10 major updates were as easy to control) . After you've had some time with the latest ubuntu can you post if you think there are any compelling features to switch back to ubuntu for (I switched to Mint after Unity was introduced)?

[Derek Smith]

Jinx said:

(I switched to Mint after Unity was introduced)

May I ask why? I 'went the other way' but I'm always up for a fiddle.

[TameRacingDriver]

james_gt3rs said:

Taita said:

Is it this year or next that Linux is ready for the desktop? I forget

Still funny each year

[2Btoo]

Derek Smith said:

Jinx said:

(I switched to Mint after Unity was introduced)

May I ask why? I 'went the other way' but I'm always up for a fiddle.

I'll pitch in on that one. I don't like Unity, Mint comes with MATE as an option and Compiz allows a LOT of automation which helps with workflow.

Mint with Cinnamon is also worth a look as it's nice and pretty and pretty simple to use.

[8bit]

If you want a nice, clean, usable desktop environment then check out ElementaryOS and/or Solus OS; both make for a clean, tidy, user-friendly desktop. I haven't looked into either of the underlying desktop systems to see if they can be retrofitted to other distros, though.

[Derek Smith]

2Btoo said:

I'll pitch in on that one. I don't like Unity, Mint comes with MATE as an option and Compiz allows a LOT of automation which helps with workflow.

Mint with Cinnamon is also worth a look as it's nice and pretty and pretty simple to use.

Thanks for that.

I might give Mint Cinnamon a try. I've rejuvenated an old, 2008, Dell Latitude with an SSD and Ubuntu. I've got a somewhat younger Acer that I might try a dual boot with. What could possibly go wrong?

[dcb]

Taita said:

Is it this year or next that Linux is ready for the desktop? I forget

Conversely, Linux for the desktop has been fine here for over 20 years.
It has been merely install'n'use for the last 10 years or so.

Currently very happy running Fedora 30 beta.

I gave up on Microsoft about 15 years ago. They haven't had
a penny from me since. Hurrah !

[AJB88]

I didn't really want to do a new install as the current install still has extra dell software installed that brings up things like bios updates in Ubuntu software center etc, If I flash a complete new install on it will probably loose that.

[8bit]

AJB88 said:

...extra dell software installed that brings up things like bios updates in Ubuntu software center etc...

Personally I wouldn't touch anything like that with a bargepole but then I've worked with Unix and Linux systems almost all my career, memories of long nights and entire weekends spent trying to resurrect a system downed by a borked firmware update tend to linger...