failed upgrade from 12.04 to 14.04

[darwinsurvivor at gmail.com]

Doug S,

Assuming you installed mate through a PPA, the PPA would have been disabled
during the upgrade. To get Mate working properly again, you will need to
add the *new* PPA for your new version of Ubuntu and most likely reinstall
mate (so it has the newest version).


~Doug P.


On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 1:47 PM, Stephen M. Webb <stephen.webb at canonical.com
> wrote:

> On 08/13/2014 04:04 PM, Doug Stewart wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 11:14 PM, Stephen M. Webb <
> stephen.webb at canonical.com <mailto: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
>
> Well, Mate is not supported by Ubuntu.  It is supported by Mint, and as
> far as I understand it Mint does not support
> upgrades as a policy.  Best of luck.  Perhaps if you can find an
> appropriate third-party archive you can reinstall the
> missing packages over top.
>
>
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