24.04 Upgrade Issues

[Jay Ridgley]

Thanks Liam:

My responses are in line...

On 12/2/24 06:09, Liam Proven wrote:
> On Sat, 30 Nov 2024 at 21:46, Jay Ridgley <jridgley2 at austin.rr.com> wrote:
>>
>> First the upgrade from the pop up window  announcing the availability of
>> 24.04
> 
> Which pop up window?

The standard message that is displayed when NEW software is available 
asking if you wish to upgrade now or later.
> 
>> failed and booted me to a command line.
> 
> How do you mean "failed"? What happened? What didn't? What did it say?
> Did you write anything down?
> 
The screen went blank and the system rebooted. No message, nothing but 
when it stopped I had a blinking cursor on the screen, NOTHING else.

>> After research I found an alternate start: apt --fix-broken install
> 
> SOP for failed package installs. OK. So, you did the upgrade,
> something didn't work, but it booted? Then you tried this, and that
> completed? Do I have it right?
> 
>> after which I did a manual upgrade, which worked.

I  entered the following commands:

1st: sudo apt --fix-broken-install
2nd: sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade

That ran to completion leaving me with a blinking cursor on the screen.
> 
> What does this mean? What's "did a manual upgrade"? What did you type?
> What happened?

See above...
> 
>>   However when I booted
>> the resulting system (I issued a shutdown - r now), I was presented with
>> a tty login, not a one for GUI.
> 
I used the command sudo shutdown -r now

> OK...
> 
>> I poked around
> 
> At what, where, how?

Various combinations of ctrl, alt, F1 ... F7
> 
>> and finally was presented
>> with a GUI login.

I have no idea which one worked.
> 
> How? What desktop? What display server? What GPU? What drivers?
> 
>> After doing a login from there I was able to get all
>> my workspaces up(4) and several applications scattered around them.
> 
> See my previous line!
> 
> 
>> My question is: How do I get a GUI login screen as the default, upon boot?
> 
> And again.
> 
> You are missing out almost all the detail we need to work out what's
> going wrong.
> 
I am sorry but I did not take any notes. I am using the default desktop. 
How do I find out what one that is? If you need that.

I have NOT done a reboot to see what happens....

I will try looking at the log files to see if I can find something...

Sorry,
Jay
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