After update, login loop

Liam Proven lproven at gmail.com
Wed Jul 4 15:23:17 UTC 2018


On Wed, 4 Jul 2018 at 16:28, Oliver Grawert <ogra at ubuntu.com> wrote:

> on a normally working system it should, yes ... dont forget that wade
> actually skipped releases during the upgrade.
>
> it is very likely that several transition scripts and tools did not run
> so the system might have ended up in a mess ... (GDM taking over vt1,
> the rest of the vt start jobs cant deal with that because they still
> expect the display manager to go to the first free vt instead of 1 or
> something like that ...)

Yes. That's why I was trying to think of a way to upgrade to 18.04
without access  to the desktop. But I gather it's now moot and he has
nuked & reloaded. Probably the simplest, cleanest solution.

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