Yes! Same issue for my days and hair strands up Solution: (same like Yaroslav and Danny) but my machine was a Dell 2950 server upgraded to 18.04 with Ubuntu desktop with --no-install- recommends => this was working on 16.04 before upgrade to 18.04
sudo ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/mesa/libGL.so.1 /usr/lib/x86_64 -linux-gnu/libGL.so.1 sudo ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/mesa/libGLESv2.so.2 /usr/lib/x86_64 -linux-gnu/libGLESv2.so.2 lspci | grep -i VGA 0f:0d.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] ES1000 (rev 02) Hope this help! God blesses!!! Best regards, Sanyaade -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-session in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1769137 Title: after 17.10->18.4 upgrade, the system did not start due to missing libGL.so.1 and libGLESv2.so.2 files Status in gnome-session package in Ubuntu: Invalid Bug description: laptop: Dell XPS12 More or less a standard Ubuntu 17.10 was upgraded to 18.4 gnome-session-bin 3.28.1-0ubuntu2 could not find some libs. After the upgrade, the system did not start with the following error and blinking screen: May 4 14:21:02 Dell gnome-session[7085]: /usr/lib/gnome-session/gnome-session-check-accelerated-gl-helper: error while loading shared libraries: libGL.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory May 4 14:21:02 Dell gnome-session[7085]: gnome-session-check-accelerated: GL Helper exited with code 32512 May 4 14:21:02 Dell gnome-session[7085]: /usr/lib/gnome-session/gnome-session-check-accelerated-gles-helper: error while loading shared libraries: libGLESv2.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory May 4 14:21:02 Dell gnome-session[7085]: gnome-session-check-accelerated: GLES Helper exited with code 32512 May 4 14:21:02 Dell at-spi-bus-launcher[3520]: dbus-daemon[3525]: Successfully activated service 'org.a11y.atspi.Registry' To fix the issue, I had to SSH to this laptop (I was brought to the load screen from other TTYs every 2 seconds) and make symlinks: root@Dell:~# #ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/mesa/libGL.so.1 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libGL.so.1 root@Yarik-Dell:~# #ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/mesa/libGLESv2.so.2 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libGLESv2.so.2 missing dependency? other info from the laptop: root@Yarik-Dell:~# lspci | grep -i VGA 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 3rd Gen Core processor Graphics Controller (rev 09) root@Dell:~# ldd /usr/lib/gnome-session/gnome-session-check-accelerated-gl-helper | egrep "libGL.so.1|libGLESv2.so.2" libGL.so.1 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libGL.so.1 (0x00007ffac7ca8000) root@Dell:~# apt-file search /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libGL.so.1 libgl1: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libGL.so.1 libgl1: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libGL.so.1.0.0 nvidia-340: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libGL.so.1 root@Dell:~# apt-cache policy nvidia-340 nvidia-340: Installed: (none) Candidate: 340.106-0ubuntu3 Version table: 340.106-0ubuntu3 500 500 http://at.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic/restricted amd64 Packages root@Dell:~# apt-cache policy libgl1 libgl1: Installed: (none) Candidate: 1.0.0-2ubuntu2 Version table: 1.0.0-2ubuntu2 500 500 http://at.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic/main amd64 Packages ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04 Package: gnome-session-bin 3.28.1-0ubuntu2 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.15.0-20.21-generic 4.15.17 Uname: Linux 4.15.0-20-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7 Architecture: amd64 CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME Date: Fri May 4 14:51:33 2018 EcryptfsInUse: Yes InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-06-15 (323 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 17.04 "Zesty Zapus" - Release amd64 (20170412) SourcePackage: gnome-session UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to bionic on 2018-05-04 (0 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-session/+bug/1769137/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp