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I upgraded from 19.04 to 19.10 through the GUI. After the restart, I'm automatically logged in as "gnome-initial-setup" and I can't do anything. Even the shutdown button doesn't work.

Could anybody help me with this issue ?

avth
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  • Maybe helpfull https://askubuntu.com/questions/1028822/disable-the-new-ubuntu-18-04-welcome-screen – nobody Oct 23 '19 at 07:34
  • This problem got reported as https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-initial-setup/+bug/1850832. – karel Nov 12 '19 at 04:21
  • It got reported as https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-initial-setup/+bug/1850832 , it would be useful to have a journalctl log from a buggy boot though – user1014886 Nov 12 '19 at 01:05

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Same issue here. I manged to figure out a way around it though.

  1. In grub go to advanced Ubuntu options. Chose the latest kernel in recovery mode
  2. Select root shell
  3. apt-get remove gnome-initial-setup
  4. reboot
EmDash
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  • So this is being caused by having an invalid user account. Running: sudo chsh USER -s /bin/bash

    (Replace USER with your user account name.) Will fix the issue.

     – EmDash Nov 14 '19 at 21:35