failed upgrade from 12.04 to 14.04

[Doug Stewart]

On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 11:14 PM, Stephen M. Webb <
stephen.webb at canonical.com> wrote:

> On 08/12/2014 10:15 PM, Doug Stewart wrote:
> > Today my system said that I could upgrade from 12.04 lts to 14.04 lts,
> so i did.
> >
> > It appeared to install ok but---
> >
> > When it rebooted to finish the install it got to the login screen and
> asked me for my password. I entered my
> > password and then i got a rectangle in the upper left corner....
>
> What desktop were you using before the upgrade?  Unity?
>

I was using Mate

>
> If you were using Unity, it sounds like either Compiz or the Gnome Session
> was not upgraded properly.  The first thing
> I'd do is look at the file $HOME/.cache/upstart/gnome-session-Unity.log to
> see if there are any obvious error
> messages.  The second thing would be to log in to the guest session
> (normally selectable from the LightDM (login)
> screen): if that works, there's probably a Compiz configuration problem.
>
> The next steps depend on the results of the initial investigation.
>
> Don't worry, it's likely a recoverable problem whatever it is.
>
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