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Restarts fail three times and then reset Bios

August 12, 2018, 1:57 pm
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Hi all,
I am having an issue with a dual booting system. My old HPE had issues with win10 and nvidia. Bios would not recognize the card. I cleaned the box out and added a new MotherBoard, Gigabyte B360M D3H, AMI Bios ID 8A0FAG07, Ver-F3. I also added a new WDC WDS500G2B0B-00YS70 SSD. I added 16GB RAM. I have two HDD available and a Blu-Ray and DVD player units. Win10 was installed first, and booting was great. I resized the SSD to free up 100GB for Kubuntu. Booting up was still ok. I then installed Kubuntu 18.04.1 and the install went ok also. I set Fastboot Off and the UEFI bios to boot from Grub and Kubuntu boots fine. Now when I reboot it the box tries to restart three times and then resets the bios to default and then starts again to Grub where I can choose Kubuntu or win10. It seem like Grub is not letting the bios restart cleanly. How can I fix this issue?
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Linux on MSI GL73 8RC032 17.3 - any known issues?

August 12, 2018, 8:29 pm
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Hello all,

I am looking potentially to pick up an MSI GL73 8RCO-32 17.3" specifically for use with Linux. I will likely run Ubuntu 18.04 LTS or a variant as the base OS and virtualize any Windows that comes with it using VirtualBox. I need the machine for a portable Linux powerhouse that I can run multiple simultaneous other Linux VMs on. I have installed Linux on an MSI-branded laptop before but that was quite a number of years ago now...

I am a seasoned Linux user - been using it since 1993 - and am quite happy manually installing drivers, tweaking UEFI parameters, adding command line options, rebuilding kernels from source code if need be.

However, as anyone, I'd prefer not to have to do those things if I don't need to ;)

I've looked back over other forum posts at other experiences people have had installing various Linux versions on various other recent MSI gaming laptops and I've seen some posts that mention bootup issues - specifically nvidia driver issues - bluetooth, keyboard backlight, boot parameters including: acpi_osi, nomodeset, pci=nomsi, libata.force=noncq or some combination of those. (I've noted the list of other links in this thread for example: https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2365997 )

Particularly useful was this that I found: https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?t...422#msg1652422 but that's obviously for a different unit.

So, I was wondering if anyone had hit any specific issues with this model, or, any of the components of this model that are common to others in the MSI range. From my assessment of the above and the components it would seem like things should be tweakable to a normal boot without too much hassle - mainly getting the nvidia drivers installed - but still needing to know if there's anything I missed before I hit "Purchase".

What would also be useful is if you have successfully done this and needed other updated vendor-sourced drivers or additional ppa site addon drivers if you have the information for that. I'll continue googling obviously :D , but thought I'd ask folks here too.

Thanks in advance,

Kind regards,

Derek.
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From which OS does grub read its config from and can I safely change that?

August 13, 2018, 2:24 am
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I have a multi boot/EFI system. I started with Windows 10, installed mint 18, later Ubuntu 18, next Ubuntu 16 over Mint 18. All os's reside on a single SDD. This change in Linux systems because I have a multi video card setup which causes Mint 18 (also 19) to crash. Ubuntu 18 works fine but I had some issues. So I tried Ubuntu 16 and installed it over Mint. Ubuntu 16 installed a graphic grub and I do not want that.

When I wanted to remove the grub boot screen I realized that each Linux has its own configuration grub files. Each installation seems to mange to trick grub into booting from its own configuration. Changing the files of another os will not help. Anyhow, that's my explanation of why changing the grub of Linux 18 had no effect on the boot screen.

in this article I understood that I should use `grub-install /dev/partition where os is installed` to tell grub to fetch its configuration files from that device. But it also states that "On a single disk you shall always run grub-install from a single OS only! That's important, otherwise you will keep overwriting your config." Does that mean I have to run it from the Ubuntu 16 system, it being the last one installed? That will be a problem as I want to clear this system. So I wonder If my understanding is correct.

Next I looked into the grub manual where it said that grub-install only has to point to the EFI partition in which case I wonder where grub reads its configuration from.

So I want grub to read its config from Ubuntu 18. How can I safely do that?

Thanks very much for your time.
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Fulldisk encryption and secureboot issue not booting 18.04.1 (@paddy-landau)

August 13, 2018, 5:52 am
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Hi,

I've been trying to set up an encrypted windows + ubuntu disk using the great howto from Paddy Landau and this wiki: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Ma...stemEncryption
What I get after following the instructions is:
Code:
error: no such device: <long-UUID-string>
error: no server is specified
error: you need to load the kernel first
The system *will* boot fine with secureboot disabled, so I guess something seems wrong there. I can boot fine on standard ubuntu install, and the ubuntu MOK and my own MOK are in the bios and enrolled.

The UUID on the first line is not any of the UUIDs on my computer and it comes from /boot/grub/x86_64-efi/load.cfg which is like this:
Code:
search.fs_uuid <the bad uuid> root lvmid/<another strange lvmid>
The /boot/efi/EFI/ubuntu directory contains both the shim and the grubx64 signed bootloades. I tried booting directly with the grubx64 or via the shim.

My uneducated guess is that the cryptodisk modules and crymtomount -u are never loaded. I never get the request for the passphrase to unlock the crypted pv partition. Perhaps because they are not signed ? Do they need to be copied in /boot/grub/efi/EFI/ubuntu/x86_64-efi by the grub-refresh script ? The normal ubuntu install seems to not copy them, yet it boots fine without (from lvm / full disk encrypted partition).

The computer is a dell xps 15 - 9670 latest bios. As stated before, MokUtil and key management are honored and work for standard ubuntu.

Any ideas how to proceed ?

EDIT: Ok, I went a little further. Enabled debug=all and pager=1 in grub.cfg to see what goes on in the boot process.
I can confirm that cryptomount is loaded by grub, but is never executed with secureboot enabled. When disabled it is called and scans trough the partitions and eventually asks for the crypted passphrase. With secureboot enabled it's skipped, never called and thus nothing works.
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Delays in 18.04 LTS upgrade from 16.04 LTS?

August 13, 2018, 12:59 pm
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Expected an upgrade from 16.04 LTS to 18.04 after 18.04 got bumped to 18.04.1.

Is there a problem with 18.04 LTS, I think users of LTS should be made aware. Would like to get the upgrade running on the test 16.04 LTS machine for a properly planned upgrade for production server... .. ?

Our production server started out as Lucid Lucy, 10.04 LTS
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[ubuntu] Issue upgrading from EOL release 17.04

August 13, 2018, 6:09 pm
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I am trying to upgrade from the unsupported 17.04 release.
I have diligently (I think) followed these instructions:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/EOLUpgrades/

My sources.list looks as follows:
Code:
## EOL upgrade sources.list
# Required
deb http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ zesty main restricted universe multiverse
deb http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ zesty-updates main restricted universe multiverse
deb http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ zesty-security main restricted universe multiverse

# Optional
#deb http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ zesty-backports main restricted universe multiverse
And every step completed successfully. But 'sudo do-release-upgrade' still does not work:
Code:
sudo do-release-upgrade
Checking for a new Ubuntu release
Your Ubuntu release is not supported anymore.
For upgrade information, please visit:
http://www.ubuntu.com/releaseendoflife
Get:1 Upgrade tool signature [819 B]                                                               
Get:2 Upgrade tool [1,258 kB]                                                                       
Fetched 1,258 kB in 0s (0 B/s)                                                                     
authenticate 'bionic.tar.gz' against 'bionic.tar.gz.gpg'
extracting 'bionic.tar.gz'
Reading cache
Checking package manager
Cannot upgrade
An upgrade from 'zesty' to 'bionic' is not supported with this tool.
Any clue what else I should be looking at?

Thanks!
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[ubuntu] Laptop Hangs After Upgrade from 16.04 LTS to 18.04 LTS

August 13, 2018, 8:26 pm
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I just upgraded an old laptop from 16.04 LTS to 18.04 LTS, but after it rebooted, it hangs on the Ubuntu (.....) screen. The hard drive light stops flashing after a while and it initially got stuck on 2 dots loading Ubuntu. I tried rebooting a few more times, but it always freezes up (the second time on 5 white dots, last time on 4 orange dots and 1 white dot). It's an Acer 5630-6288 (Core 2 Duo 1.66 GHz, upgraded to 4 GB and 300 MB 7200 RPM hard drive).
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[ubuntu] Struggling with using terminal to install drivers

August 13, 2018, 10:17 pm
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Greetings everyone,

Completely new to all this due to yet another Windows update screwing my OS on my laptop. So I'm finally persisting with trying something new.

I was able, through some minor miracle, to install the driver for my Epson XP-520. However I am really struggling to install a driver for the scanner that is included in the printer. I have followed all instructions on forums and Epsons website and I just can't execute the install.sh command in terminal. It is literally doing my head in!!

I am pretty much illiterate when it comes to any type of Terminal or Command entry on a PC. If anyone has a really simple solution for me it would be greatly appreciated.
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[ubuntu] Desktop icons not appearing after upgrade from 16.04 to 18.04.1

August 14, 2018, 2:17 am
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I received the 'Upgrade to 18.04.1' prompt and decided to go for it.

Since the upgrade no icons appear on my Desktop, I can't create files/folders by right-clicking on the Desktop.

The Desktop folders and files do exist when I view with Files or in Terminal. If I create a folder in Terminal it doesn't then appear on the Desktop, same if I touch a file. The same is true from the file viewer GUI.

Any ideas?! Help would be much appreciated, I don't have lots of Linux experience.

If I remember right I had installed Unity in my 16.04 installation (though I can't remember if I ended up changing that back to Gnome).

I did a bit of searching and in a previous (quite old) thread someone had had some success by installing the Gnome Tweak tool, when I do an apt-cache search I see two possible candidates:

gnome-tweak-tool - adjust advanced settings for GNOME - transitional package
gnome-tweaks - tool to adjust advanced configuration settings for GNOME

I'm not sure which of these to try (and what to do with it once installed)

Thanks,

Guy
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E: Unable to locate package libgl1-mesa-glx-lts-utopic:i386

August 14, 2018, 4:37 am
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Hello i installed steam but error :

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Steam needs to install these additional packages:
libgl1-mesa-dri:i386, libgl1-mesa-glx:i386, libc6:i386
[sudo] password for root1:
.....W: Target Sources (main/source/Sources) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/openjdk-r-ubuntu-ppa-bionic.list:2 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/openjdk-r-ubuntu-ppa-bionic.list:3
W: Target Sources (main/source/Sources) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/openjdk-r-ubuntu-ppa-bionic.list:2 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/openjdk-r-ubuntu-ppa-bionic.list:4
W: Target Sources (main/source/Sources) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/openjdk-r-ubuntu-ppa-bionic.list:2 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/openjdk-r-ubuntu-ppa-bionic.list:3
W: Target Sources (main/source/Sources) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/openjdk-r-ubuntu-ppa-bionic.list:2 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/openjdk-r-ubuntu-ppa-bionic.list:4


Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:


The following packages have unmet dependencies.
libgl1-mesa-dri:i386 : Depends: libglapi-mesa:i386 but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libllvm6.0:i386 (>= 1:6.0~svn298832-1~) but it is not going to be installed
libgl1-mesa-glx:i386 : Depends: libgl1:i386 but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libglx-mesa0:i386 but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
Press return to continue:










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and i trying :
sudo apt-get install libc6:i386 libgl1-mesa-dri-lts-utopic:i386 libgl1-mesa-glx-lts-utopic:i386

but error:
E: Unable to locate package libgl1-mesa-dri-lts-utopic:i386
E: Unable to locate package libgl1-mesa-glx-lts-utopic:i386




System: i3 5200 Ubuntu 18.04
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Ubuntu 18.04 started nicht GNOME Display Manager

August 14, 2018, 5:15 am
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Hello,

have upgraded to 18:04. The boot process went to the Ubuntu site, then it was over. Then started in safemode and queried via terminal the graphics card with lspci. Nothing was displayed. Then I have the Nvidia driver installed on Synaptic. Now, the safe mode is no longer synonymous. I started then 18.04 from the CD and booted in the attempt. Have queried there with lspci and got the following message:

lspci -nkk | grep "VGA \ | 'Core' \ | 3D \ | Display" -A2

VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Cooperation 82G33 / G31 Express Integrated Graphics Controller [8086: 29c2] (rev 02)

If I start in normal mode now, "Started GNOME Display Manager" will appear and that's it.

Then started with ctrl + alt + F2 and tried to delete gnome-core, gnome-shell, gnome-session. Message: not instralled. I installed gnome-core, gnome-shell and gnome-session. Hatr unfortunately brought nothing.

Searched forum, without result.

Can someone help me?

Greetings, Gottfried
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[SOLVED] Am I using a LTS kernel ?

August 14, 2018, 8:06 am
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Hi,

I am using Ubuntu 18.04. Just doing the usual apt-get update/upgrade has updated my installation to 18.04.1.

I read here in the forum that if I don't upgrade the kernel manually using it wont upgrade the kernel on its own.

I am atm using

Code:
$ uname -a
Linux ubuntu 4.15.0-30-generic #32-Ubuntu SMP Thu Jul 26 17:42:43 UTC 2018 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
Is there anything called a Long Term Support kernel ?

Am I using a LTS kernel ?
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'Try without installing' hangs indefinitely 18.04?

August 14, 2018, 9:49 am
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I have an Alienware 15 r3 with windows 10, and I'm trying to dual boot it with Ubuntu 18.04. I used to have it dual-booted with Ubuntu 16.04,and it worked fine, but I had to send it in for some repairs, and they reinstalled Windows over everything. I created a bootable usb with Rufus and the amd64 iso, but whenever I boot from the usb, it hangs indefinitely on a splash screen. It has the Ubuntu logo and 5 dots, 4 of which turn orange before it hangs. I tried booting into text mode, and I get a bunch of messages of the form: "A start job is running for ____", where the blank is either Snappy Daemon, Disk Manager, Network Manager, or a few other things. After a few minutes those start jobs fail, and I get messages like: "Failed to start ____. See systemctl status ____.service" where the first blank is Snappy Daemon, etc, and the second blank is some service that relates to it (for Snappy Daemon it was snapd.service). It then stops and restarts those services and I get the errors again and again. I've let it run for about 20 minutes before losing hope that it was going to finish. A picture of the error messages is below. I don't know if I can open a terminal while it does this, so I think the only way to fix it would be a kernel boot option or something from the grub command line, but I'm not sure. Can anyone help me figure out how to boot into ubuntu from a live usb without this error? Thanks.
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[SOLVED] MSI Z370 Grub error during install

August 14, 2018, 2:20 pm
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Hello,

i want to install Ubuntu 18.04.1 next to Windows 10 on different NVM drives but i got an install error from grub.

Boot = UEFI only
Secure Boot = off
Network = Working
USB Stick starting as UEFI = true

I want install grub on the Ubuntu SSD and use the grub menu to boot Ubuntu or Windows.

The pictures showing the error, partitions i made and filtered syslog.

Can anyone help to make it run?

greets
Jones
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Big problems with Ubuntu 18.04

August 14, 2018, 7:36 pm
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I usually hesitate to upgrade but I did.
My computer runs like it has 1MB of ram. Firefox takes up to 3 minutes to come up.
Oo takes 1 to 2 minutes. And sometimes freezes.
Thunderbird 30 second to one minute. Sometimes I cannot reply to emails.
Screen constantly freezes from 30 seconds to who knows how long. I have had to turn off the computer a dozen times.
This isn't working at all.
Intel 2.90 Ghzx2
5.7Gib ram
64 bit
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[ubuntu] GRUB Instalation Failed when try to install Ubuntu 18.04

August 14, 2018, 7:43 pm
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I try to install ubuntu 18.04 on my laptop. but I got error message that grub instalation failed.
I have error log report form instalation in this link :

http://paste.ubuntu.com/p/sRkFy9HfR7/

Please help me, thank you
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[ubuntu] upgrade from 16.04.5 to 18.04.1

August 14, 2018, 8:42 pm
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I just installed 18/04.1 on my laptop from the internet (not a dvd) My system:
hp laptop
Processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2540M CPU @ 2.60GHz
Memory 3988MB (2440MB used)
Machine Type Notebook
Operating System Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS

It seems to be working ok but it is also a lot different from yhe upgrades I did on my other computers. For instance, the docker. What I seem to have, in lieu of the gnome docker is a launch bar and it may be the unity docker. System settings is also much different.

What I would like to know is what I have done and what I now have as it seems to be much different. There is also a program called qpdfview and I am wondering what that is. It says itgs a document viewer but seems to have a lot of capacity for a viewer.

I also googled 'docker'. The top item was directions to install docker. I did that and then thought I had best stop right there and get some help before I really screwed things up.

Thoughts?
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[ubuntu] Ubuntu 18.04.1 does'nt recognize windows 10 at all

August 14, 2018, 9:02 pm
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My laptop initially had windows 18.04 dual booted in it. It had grub menu for selecting OS. I had initially problems in installing WiFi adapter but finally i was able to install it, but temporarily. Probably, while making the settings permenant i would have made some mistake. I was unable to reinstall the driver. I tried a lot but i was not able to reinstall it. Finally, i decided to reinstall ubuntu.I deleted the entire drive partition in which ubuntu 18.04 was installed in. To properly delete grub, i typed some commands in command prompt of Windows 10 automatic pc repair and troubleshooter. I executed-

bootrec /fixmbr - Successfull
bootrec /fixboot - access is denied
I resatrted my pc. Windows 10 was successfully starting without showing any errors. I rebooted it 3-4 times to ensure ubuntu is fully deleted, everything was fine. So i downloaded latest ubuntu 18.04.1 and tried to dual boot. Everything goes well. But, before installing ubuntu it does'nt shows option for "Install Ubuntu alongside windows" it shows all other 4 options like "erase drive and install ubuntu"; "something else", etc. It shows NO OPTION like "Install Ubuntu alongside windows". I have dual booted 2-3 times before but it never happened like this. I don't want to risk my windows 10. I uncheked the hibernate option and fast start option in control panel of windows 10 but it does'nt work.link for my previous post for wifi adapter- https://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/Notebook-Wireless-and-Networking/No-WiFi-adapter-in-ubuntu-18-04-LTS/t...


Please help me.
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Issues in upgrading to 18.04

August 14, 2018, 11:07 pm
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I recently bought a new laptop which came with 16.04. I wanted to
upgrade it to 18.04 immediately. After using the Software Updater
to update 16.04, I started "update-manager -cd" from a terminal.
When it finished the "Installing the upgrades" step, it showed
the message "Checking for installed snaps" and just hung there. It
also changed its colour. After waiting for more than 10 mins, I
terminated update-manager (^C) and restarted it. It did some quick
checks and suggested a system restart. I did and saw that the system
came up with 18.04.

I am now using 18.04 but would like to confirm that the upgrade was
completed sucessfully, especially the cleaning up part which I did
not see in the UI. How to check this?

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Also, during the installation step, I saw some error messages related
to some packages. For example,

(frontend:27373): GdkPixbuf-^[[1;33mWARNING^[[0m **: ^[[34m10:31:08.101^[[0m: Cannot open pixbuf loader module file '/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gdk-pixbuf-2.0/2.10.0/loaders.cache': No such file or directory^M
^M
This likely means that your installation is broken.^M
Try running the command^M
gdk-pixbuf-query-loaders > /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gdk-pixbuf-2.0/2.10.0/loaders.cache^M
to make things work again for the time being.^M


/usr/sbin/dkms: line 2026: echo: write error: Broken pipe
/usr/sbin/dkms: line 2028: echo: write error: Broken pipe

Do these mean that something is broken in the installation?

Thanks
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I lost Root Priveledges after upgrade

August 15, 2018, 12:03 am
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I am running Ubuntu mate 16.04 on a PC.

I wanted to do something with firefox but the firefox version I had on was too old. So I did an uprage using sudo apt-get upgrade.

After sometime, I rebooted and my theme no longer exists, all my icons disappeared. I can enter my Root Account on the GUI but when I try to click on things like >Administration>users, the system disallows me to manipulate anything. It seems like my root account doesnt have root priveledges anymore.

Has anyone encountered this before? Any suggestions?
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