Cannot launch Mate Session after xenial upgrade
Posted: Sat Aug 27, 2016 6:02 pm
After upgrading via Synaptic I am no longer able to get Mate sessions to launch. XFCE, Xubuntu and Gnome sessions load without issues but starting a Mate session switches to a black screen and just brings me back to the login prompt. I had also tried enabling compiz while in a Mate session, which didn't go very well.
Ultimate Edition 5.0 LTS
4.4.0-34-generic #53-Ubuntu SMP x86_64
Nvidia 361.42 Dual monitors (Xinerama)
Not having any luck with reported working solutions that others have posted in Ubuntu forums etc. I am wondering if there is something specific to Ultimate Edition that I ended up breaking.
Trouble shooting steps so far:
Tried as root and another user - same treatment.
Reinstalled Mate packages via Synaptic.
Removed compiz and attempted clean up of left over items.
Switched from lightdm to gdm and had to revert as gdm wouldn't load: "A start job is running for Hold until boot process finishes up..." let it run over 10min. and decided that was long enough.
Any suggestions welcome.
Thanks
Ultimate Edition 5.0 LTS
4.4.0-34-generic #53-Ubuntu SMP x86_64
Nvidia 361.42 Dual monitors (Xinerama)
Not having any luck with reported working solutions that others have posted in Ubuntu forums etc. I am wondering if there is something specific to Ultimate Edition that I ended up breaking.
Trouble shooting steps so far:
Tried as root and another user - same treatment.
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sudo chown -R user.user /home/user
chmod ug+x /home/user/.Xauthority
sudo apt-get install --reinstall ubuntu-session
sudo apt-get purge lightdm ; sudo apt-get install lightdm -y
lightdm reconfigure
dpkg-reconfigure lightdm
apt-get purge lightdm lightdm-gtk-greeter mate-core mate-desktop-environment mate-notification-daemon;apt-get install lightdm lightdm-gtk-greeter mate-core mate-desktop-environment mate-notification-daemon
Reinstalled Mate packages via Synaptic.
Removed compiz and attempted clean up of left over items.
Switched from lightdm to gdm and had to revert as gdm wouldn't load: "A start job is running for Hold until boot process finishes up..." let it run over 10min. and decided that was long enough.
Any suggestions welcome.
Thanks