[GNC] Gnucash 3.3 crash after upgrading from Ubuntu 18.04 to 18.10

[Stephen M. Butler]

On 10/25/18 8:56 AM, Colin Law wrote:
> On Thu, 25 Oct 2018 at 16:51, Stephen M. Butler <kg7je at arrl.net 
> <mailto:kg7je at arrl.net>> wrote:
>
>
>     Be sure to do a shutdown and power on cycle first on th 18.10.
>
>
> When?  The last thing that the upgrade to 18.10 does is a reboot.


That was successful.  After that I shutdown for the night (laptop).  The 
next day when it powered up got the login cycle that just went back to 
the login page instead of showing the desktop.  Hitting clt/alt/F3 got a 
terminal screen and that login showed the login-password working but the 
mount of the home directory failed.

Now, I started back a few years ago (forget which version) and have had 
a lot of changes over the years.  Maybe a newer starting point would 
work OK.  Also, my home directory was encrypted.  So, if yours isn't, 
things should work.  Anyway, I've since removed the encryption but am 
holding off on 18.10 for a few weeks.

>       I lost
>     access to my home directory on power up (got a mount:  bad address
>     message).
>
>     I had to reload 18.04 and restore files from a backup.  I think
>     part of
>     the problem was the home directory was encrypted -- and thus the
>     mount
>     issue at login.  BTW, the login just cycled around which was the
>     first
>     clue something was wrong.
>
>

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