System update corrupted system

[Liam Proven]

On Fri, 18 Jun 2021 at 18:38, Bret Busby <bret.busby at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I have just completed a system update on UbuntuMATE 21/.04, and
> rebooted, and it has corrupted the system.
>
> It broke the panel, shifted everything around in the panel, set the
> font in the panel, to be too big to be usable, and will not let me
> change the font size in the panel.
>
> I now can not launch some of the applications from the panel, because
> the sabotage has put them behind the text of the menu text in the
> panel.
>
> I do not know why the "developers" set out to break the installation,
> via "updates".

Obviously, they do _not_, but OTOH, if you want a quiet life, run the
LTS version, not the short-term one.

Secondly, MATE is in some flux at the moment, I believe, as they
progressively move stuff from using Gtk 2 to Gtk 3 -- although that
should settle down as with GNOME 3-40, renamed GNOME 40 so as not to
scare the horses, Gtk 4 is now out.

Can you give us any more info to identify _what_ went wrong?

• How did you do the update?
• Did it give an errors?
• Is there a log?
• Does `apt install -f` fix any broken packages or anything?
• Can you do another update and then reboot in case something did not complete?
• Could there be something else awry such as running out of disk space?


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