After Linux Mint update, numerous problems ...

[Brian Cluff]

apt upgrade only does a partial upgrade on your system and if that's all 
you do, your system can get into a place where dependencies get out of 
wack and the system breaks.

instead do:
apt full-upgrade
or
apt dist-upgrade
They both do the exact same exact thing, except full upgrade is the new 
name for dist upgrade option becuase too many people only did upgrade 
because they were afraid that dist-upgrade would actually upgrade their 
distribution to the new version... it doesn't.  It just tells your 
system to upgrade all the packages, where plain old upgrade tells the 
system to only upgrade packages that don't require any additional 
packages to installed or uninstalled.... which can leave security 
problems on your system if the update requires additional packages to be 
installed.

If you've been doing only upgrade for a really long time; be prepared 
for some broken dependencies that wouldn't have happened if you had done 
dist-upgrades instead.... Hopefully apt's dependency calculator will 
just take care of it for you and all will be good with the world again.

Brian Cluff

On 9/2/20 3:04 PM, joe--- via PLUG-discuss wrote:
> Thanks to Matthew and Michael Butash for suggestions.
>
> I did a new system update:
>
> sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y
>
> And I have tried removing and reinstalling chrome,
> but it still won't work.
>
> Everything else seems to be working okay now.
>
> Not sure how to do the "journalctl" thing.
>
> Firefox works fine, but I still hope to get chrome working.
>
> Any other suggestions?
>
>
> ----------------------
> 2009-01 Michael Butash wrote (in part):
>> I've had ibus break, which tends to break everything.
>>
>> Would be worth using journalctl -f as root while launching
>> to see what the system is complaining about >
>>
>> Have you tried a clean user profile?  Ibus tends to be
>> user dependent ... to test just to log in as another user
>
> ----------------
>> Aug 31, 2020 joe wrote:
>>> After a Linux Mint update today, I seem to have numerous
>>> problems that I did not have before the update.
>>>
>>> ** Chrome browser won't open at all.
>
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