[NBLUG/talk] Ubuntu 12.04->14.04 upgrade gone awry

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Hi Mitch,

I was @ the last o'reilly nblug meeting , with the same issue, I cured
it by copying my data from the skewed ubuntu drive with a knoppix dvd,
and the combination of half a dozen guides that I found  online to help
that effect. It took much terminal work, I certainly will not repeat it
on the next big 'upgrade'.

Best of luck, Rob

On 08/29/2014 08:57 PM, Mitch Patenaude wrote:
> I don't know why I always forget how painful the upgrade process is, but
> I've managed to once again render my ubuntu machine almost unusable, and
> I'm hoping that somebody here can help.
> 
> I'll spare you the details other than to say after much hacking about
> with apt-* and dpkg I've managed to make it boot, and can even get into
> a window manager by setting the defaults to kdm and kde.  The problem is
> that I don't like KDE, and would much rather use some gnome based
> desktop, but they all wedge on login.  I can't find anything useful in
> /var/log/Xorg.log or /var/log/syslog.  
> 
> I've tried removing (well, moving to a different directory) ~/.gnome*
> and ~/.gtk*, but that didn't help.
> 
> Any other ideas out there?
> 
> Thanks,
>   - Mitch
> 
> 
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