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

[Glenn Kerbein]

emerge -avuDN --keep-going world

oh wait...

Delta

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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