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It appears to me that files listed in .gitignore are not displayed by nemo. This was news to me; recently I was totally baffled at the apparent disappearance of files that are listed in a terminal but not in nemo. Where is this documented? Unless I misunderstand what is going on, it seems like a com...

My bad. I was using the wrong key sequence to get a virtual console. So now I can log in to a console and thus the problem is with X. I will look on that forum to see how to debug X problems from command line.

I have not updated mint since last fall for various reasons. I am running 17.3 Cinnamon. I avoid release updates because of various backward compatibility problems with matlab. Today I did a system update (of packages, not to a new version of mint). It is now badly borked. After the update it now wi...