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bushyiii wrote: ⤴Wed Feb 06, 2019 12:06 am
Received an error:
mint@mint:/mnt/guy$ sudo mv -v ..cache/ .cache/.bak
mv: cannot stat '..cache/': No such file or directory
Did not continue with the terminal commands since this error.
Well, there was a slight improvement but no panel. What I noticed was that the min, max, close icons are now correct. The cursor is an arrowhead when I move it across the open folder but turns into an X when I move it to a blank area of the desktop.
It's pretty late for me so I bid you good night and appreciate all your efforts.
bushyiii wrote: ⤴Wed Feb 06, 2019 12:50 am
Well, there was a slight improvement but no panel. What I noticed was that the min, max, close icons are now correct. The cursor is an arrowhead when I move it across the open folder but turns into an X when I move it to a blank area of the desktop.
It's pretty late for me so I bid you good night and appreciate all your efforts.
Getting late here too.
A lot happens upgrading versions so it's difficult to pin-down what caused the problem.
You could try a chroot to reinstall the display manager.
My only other recommendation would be to do a fresh install of 19.1.
I rebooted this morning and the drives are listed differently but I think I modified your commands correctly.
Home is on sda1 and the OS is on SDD2
All the commands were accepted without error until this one:
chroot to ->(system) # apt get install --reinstall $(dpkg -S $(cat /etc/X11/default-display-manager)|awk '{print $1}'|tr -d
apt
Usage: apt command [options]
Got this last line:"E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or specify a solution)."
reading the output I saw this:"You might want to run 'apt-get -f install' to correct these:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
A whole lot of items are then listed...
Should I do "apt-get -f install"
and then apt-get install --reinstall lightdm?
Panel is back, things are almost perfect. Something is wrong with Networking. Wired connection isn't working, tried using USB WifI and its not working either.
Should I start another post in a different support area?
I sincerely appreciate all the time you invested in helping me for these two days. I online now from a different box.
bushyiii wrote: ⤴Wed Feb 06, 2019 10:27 am
You should change your screen name to Merlin.
Panel is back, things are almost perfect. Something is wrong with Networking. Wired connection isn't working, tried using USB WifI and its not working either.
Should I start another post in a different support area?
I sincerely appreciate all the time you invested in helping me for these two days. I online now from a different box.
Well that was easy wasn't it
You followed instructions perfectly
It would be best to close this and start a new topic in the networking forum since this thread is already pretty looooooong.
You can always include a link to this topic to show how this all came about.