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, 12:07 +0000 schrieb Bret Busby:
>>
>> All the 20.04 system errors, with marco, blueman, the nvidia
>> detector,
>> etc, were reported
>
> do you have any bug numbers, i'd happily point the desktop team to them
> ... especially given the fact that i run 20.04 on a lot of machines
> (including nvidia based ones) and can not see any of these bugs over
> here ... (though i dont use things like the conflicting blueman (which
> most likely requires to remove/disable (parts of) the integrated system
> bluetooth management tools))
>
>> 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).
>
> did you cosider that it might be caused by a mis-configuration on your
> side ? there are lierally tens of millions of ubuntu users and i'd
> assume there would be *lots* of bug reports if it was as unstable as
> you seem to have experienced it ...
>
>>
>> The thunderbird issue on 20.10 has also been reported to the ubuntu
>> thunderbird package maintainers.
>>
> this seems to be a bug in the language packs for thundebird, not in
> thunderbird itself and seems to be in the process of being fixed (a
> workaround is also posted on the bug report already (re-install your
> respective thunderbird language pack)) ...
>
> note though that the desktop team is likely focusing on the thunderbird
> snap in the future (it was officially moved to "canonical maintained"
> last week)
>
> ciao
> 	oli
>

I am no longer running 20.04 on any of my computers.

I am running 20.10 on two computers, and 16.04.x on this, my most
powerful computer.

On booting 20.04, each time it was booted, I would get a series of
Ubuntu system errors (that showed in the taskbar with a splat icon in
the button for selecting them), that opened dialogue boxes with
something like "Ubuntu has experienced a system error", and options
including "Show details", and "Send" and "Do not send". When I
selected the "Show details", it would take a few minutes, and then
display some information, at which stage, I would select "Send".
Sometimes, after doing that, I would get another system error
notification, for apparently, the same error. I was not notified of
any bug report identifier. And, sometimes, I would simply get an error
notification, with text something like "Ubuntu has experienced an
error. Report it? <No><Yes>", with no details other than that, and, no
option for finding what was the error.

When I updated, the errors kept coming, with the error notifications,
other than the one that concealed the details, occurring every time
the systems were booted/rebooted.

When I upgraded to 20.10, the error notifications no longer appeared.

Whilst I always selected the send error report options, I did not
receive any indication of any bug report. The bugs persisted in 20.04,
and were eliminated upon upgrading to 20.10 .

Whilst 20.10 may be officially regarded as an "Interim" rather than an
LTS release, as I have said, so far, apart from the thunderbird issue,
20.10 appears to be more stable than 20.04 .

One of the 20.10 installations is on a desktop computer with an i3
CPU, Intel inboard graphics, and 32GB RAM; the other 20.10
installation is on an Acer Aspire 5750G "laptop" computer, with an i5
CPU with Intel inboard graphics and an nVidia GPU and 16GB RAM.

The 16.04.x installation is on an Acer Asdpire V3-772G "laptop"
computer, with an i7 CPU, Intel inboard graphics and an nVidia GPU and
32GB of RAM, and, I am intending to keep the 16.04 installation active
on this computer (I also have 20.10 installed on it, as I wanted to
check that it would work okay on this computer), for as long as I can,
as it has a web browser that is more advanced that any web browser
since; midori 0.5.11, which allows each window (in private browsing)
to operate completely independently of every other browser window,
resulting in greater stability - when one crashes, it does not affect
the others.

-- 
Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
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