Update for UbuntuMATE 16.04.6 broke the GUI

[Bret Busby]

On 25/08/2019, Mark Frank <mark at markanderika.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 25, 2019 at 10:05 AM Bret Busby <bret.busby at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On 25/08/2019, Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Try logging in as a different user, that will tell you whether it is
>> > your profile that has been messed up or whether it is something system
>> > related.  If you have not got a second user configured then make one,
>> > it is very easy.
>>
>>
>> No, it is not easy.
>>
>> I have only one user set up, on each of my systems, from installation;
>> me.
>>
>> On both of the two broken systems; 16.04.6 and 18.04.3,
>> sudo adduser
>> returns
>>
>> "
>> adduser: Only one or two names allowed.
>> "
>>
>
> Try:
>
>  sudo adduser seconduser
>
> Mark
>

Thank you - it was a syntax problem; I got the syntax wrong - I
thought it would prompt for a username for the user to be added. I did
not understand the man entry for adduser.


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Bret Busby
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