Following a set of updates (attached) Saturday 20th I lost a working desktop. Further to that recent dailies for Xubuntu and Mate both fail to start a working desktop either by:
1 - booting Try option from the first menu
2 - booting Try option from the Try/Install dialogue
3 - logging into installed system
Changing the Exec line in /usr/share/xsessions/xubuntu.desktop from
Following a set of updates (attached) Saturday 20th I lost a working desktop. Further to that recent dailies for Xubuntu and Mate both fail to start a working desktop either by:
1 - booting Try option from the first menu
2 - booting Try option from the Try/Install dialogue
3 - logging into installed system
Changing the Exec line in /usr/share/ xsessions/ xubuntu. desktop from
Exec=/usr/ share/xfce4/ scripts/ run-systemd- session xubuntu- session. target
to
Exec=startxfce4 and my normal desktop runs again.
(Found all this out after I reported bug 1615338, which I've now marked invalid)
ProblemType: Bug ature: Ubuntu 4.6.0-10.12-generic 4.6.5 /boot/vmlinuz- 4.6.0-10- generic root=UUID= 246fbeaf- 5feb-4078- 9c56-10a03b4faf a1 ro quiet splash asset.tag: To be filled by O.E.M. asset.tag: 7383241-001 version: V1.0 MegatrendsInc. :bvrF5: bd06/19/ 2014:svnNOVATEC HLTD:pnMBB- 44608:pvrV1. 0:rvnGigabyteTe chnologyCo. ,Ltd.:rnH81M- DS2V:rvrTobefil ledbyO. E.M.:cvnNOVATEC HLTD:ct3: cvrV1.0: version: V1.0 conffile. .etc.systemd. journald. conf: [modified] .etc.systemd. journald. conf: 2016-07- 21T07:46: 55.198735
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.10
Package: systemd 231-4
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 4.6.0-10-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.3-0ubuntu7
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: XFCE
Date: Sun Aug 21 08:59:13 2016
InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-06-11 (70 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 16.10 "Yakkety Yak" - Alpha amd64 (20160611)
MachineType: NOVATECH LTD MBB-44608
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=
SourcePackage: systemd
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
dmi.bios.date: 06/19/2014
dmi.bios.vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
dmi.bios.version: F5
dmi.board.
dmi.board.name: H81M-DS2V
dmi.board.vendor: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.
dmi.board.version: To be filled by O.E.M.
dmi.chassis.
dmi.chassis.type: 3
dmi.chassis.vendor: NOVATECH LTD
dmi.chassis.
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAmerican
dmi.product.name: MBB-44608
dmi.product.
dmi.sys.vendor: NOVATECH LTD
modified.
mtime.conffile.