symlink persist follow-up

[Grizzly]

Friday, September 29, 2023  at 9:37, Keith wrote:
Re: symlink persist follow-up (at least in part)

>On 9/27/23 12:10 AM, Grizzly via ubuntu-users wrote:
>> Tuesday, September 26, 2023  at 17:10, Keith wrote:
>> Re: symlink persist follow-up (at least in part)

>> is it still gnome on Unity? (also see my other post re Mate files in Unity?)
>
>Unity still uses a lot of gnome technology under the hood

I thought that, or the other way round (historically)

>I don't know what's going on with Mate packages being installed, though. 
>I'd check /var/log/apt/history.log* for clues.

If it didn't get cleared I will next time I fire her up, it has made me more 
carful of using after "full-uprade -y" without looking at "--upgradable"

the mate stuff took over, I had an (albeit crippled) mate desktop that was just 
a little more use than the bare wallpaper if my unity desktop, Ctrl+Alt+T did 
nothing, Ctrl+Alt+F2 did give a terminal, I tried all the (old chestnut) cures 
for missing dock/launcher and panel, none got me back to a working system

checking all the unity desktop files showed all up to date

I hoped that wisdom of the group would offer a way out... 

in the end I concluded that I may need to wipe and start a fresh, so a radical 
approach was worth a try, I did a 

sudo apt remove  --purge *mate*
sudo apt remove  --purge plymou*

rebooted no real change still had a awful apple green (mate) blank screen

then tried

sudo apt reinstall ubuntu-unity-desktop

failed a few times due to reduced network, reboot into recovery, add network 
support and try again

after a long download I had unity back, a few reboots, now only one on the 
logon screen, later upgrades have been small and correct AFAICT

I'll add that to my (growing) list of "cures" most never worked though

I'm sure I will see the symtoms again even if not caused by the same thing

I cant have been the only one who ran that upgrade and got mate added? maybe 
they are still trying to get back up and running
 
>>> I'm a wee surprised the mounted 22.04 volume didn't show up in nautilus.
>>> On my machine the root / and win10 ntfs volumes do appear in the "Other
>>> locations" section, but not on the dock. Neither of them has x-gvfs
>>> options listed in their /etc/fstab entries, though. Ah well.

are they in media\user\drive or mnt\drive?

>You can add "x-gvfs-show" as a mount option on the 22.04 volume line in 
>the 23.10 /etc/fstab to have the volume show up in nautilus and 
>presumably as a volume icon on the dock. 

I did that once I got back a useable system, and it did show in both places

Grizz