SOLVED? - was [Re: Desktop Background Bites the Dust]

[Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net>]

On 05/18/2017 11:52 PM, Michael Milliman wrote:
> I have no clue what happened, but the desktop background picture has
> ceased to be displayed. I'm not even sure where to look to troubleshoot
> the problem.  The salient information is: OS is fully updated Testing,
> MATE desktop environment.  I have attempted to re-set the desktop
> background via both system settings and via right-click->set desktop
> background on the desktop to no effect.  Thinking that probably the
> issue was associated with my normal login (the only one on the ea7c4862-980d-56f3-3578-505684870f85@cloud85.netsystem),
> I created a new user from root terminal and logged in with newly created
> skeleton home folder; the problem persisted with the new user, so it is
> a system-wide issue.  Past that, I have no clue.  Any ideas/help will be
> greatly appreciated.  Thanks in advance.


I've just done:
   apt-get update
   apt-get upgrade
   apt-get dist-upgrade

I no longer see the problem described in this thread.
[just a heads up for those who haven't recently done update etc]