Unable to login after upgrade

[Bret Busby]

On 30/10/2020, Oliver Grawert <ogra at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> hi,
> Am Freitag, den 30.10.2020, 09:20 +0000 schrieb Bret Busby:
>> On 30/10/2020, Gregory Gamble <greg.gamble at uwa.edu.au> wrote:
>> >
>> > Dear list,
>> >
>> > I wonder if you have advice on what to check out.
>> >
>> > On my "work" computer, I recently did the upgrade from 18.04 to
>> > 20.04
>> > and now have the curious situation of not being able to login at
>> > the
>> > desktop,
>> > but I'm able to remote login from home.
>> >
>> > So far the IT guy has not been able to locate the problem.
>> > Have you some ideas on where to look and what info. I should
>> > provide
>> > ... might the GRUB file have been over written?
>> >      If so, will a sudo command fix it?
>> >
>> > Regards,
>> > Greg Gamble
>> >
>> >
>> If you are able to log in remotely, and, would be able to do it, I
>> recommend upgrading from 20.04 to 20.10.
>>
> if you recommend such a thing to LTS users you should really point out
> that non LTS releases have only 9 months of support and force you to
> stay on non-LTS releases and to do a release upgrade a lot more often
> ...
>
> the relevant fixes will be backported to the LTS (in 20.04.2) if
> someone properly reported them as bugs (did you report your issues ?)
>
> ciao
> 	oli

All the 20.04 system errors, with marco, blueman, the nvidia detector,
etc, were reported using the faulty (no updates detected, even though
the systems were regularly updated as updates were notified) automated
system error reporter.

The 20.04 system errors made it seem so buggy that it appeared not
ready to have been released, with 20.10 being the apparent stable
version of 20.04 (apart from the thunderbird issue).

The thunderbird issue on 20.10 has also been reported to the ubuntu
thunderbird package maintainers.

-- 
Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
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