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

[E Frank Ball III]

On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 08:57:33PM -0700, 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


apt-get install ubuntu-desktop ubuntu-gnome-desktop ubuntu-minimal ubuntu-session ubuntu-settings

Good luck,

   E Frank Ball          frankb at frankb.us