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The thing is, my second user could log-in, and the system seemed to be functioning for them. My question really is, what could have gone wrong for the 'broken' user - which files does login use that would produce a 'system is broken/ reboot' message? - and could I have fixed this issue elegantly?

(In the middle of running the upgrade I had had a warning that grub had encountered a problem and I might not be able to boot the system (at all) - at which point I would have stopped the install if I could, but there was only 'ok' and 'next', or similar, no 'cancel'. So I was kind of glad that anything worked really.)

In the end I was able to copy broken-user's files to a new-user, who could log-in - and use all the files...

JamesW
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I managed figure out that ubuntu wants you to use wayland after the upgrade. I have a couple of programs that don't work with wayland so I got to the terminal and restored using Timeshift.

But today I fixed the issue and am working in ubuntu 24.04 with xorg. Actions were:

sudo apt-get install --no-install-recommends lubuntu-desktop
sudo reboot

login into lubuntu, then:

sudo do-release-upgrade

now i can login to either lubuntu or ubuntu in xorg

pbhj
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David Barnes
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