lose my "Ubuntu Advantage?"

[djchandler]

My gui on an old 5th gen. i7, Iris 630 graphics, is apparently gone after xorg was removed during an upgrade today, Aug. 4. My data is on a separate partition, so it's good. This install has survived changing computers, and Ubuntu upgrades going back to 2009, and about every GUI supported under Ubuntu.

Question: will re-installing Ubuntu on my "system" partition for that computer lose my "Ubuntu Advantage" registration for that hardware?

A newer and simpler installation on a real 4th gen. Haswell i7 upgraded something like Windows 11 does, but not without hiccups. Software updater complained, then behaved.

[djchandler]

Re-installed the system, kept my data partition intact. Ubuntu Pro says I still have 5 licenses, so I'm probably still okay on the Advantage.
I'm not really sure what that means after the past 3 days. At least I fixed my partition table too.
Fresh!

[guiverc]

You didn't provide any release details (though your tag shows 22.04), but remove of the desktop meta package did occur for a number of users if they upgraded during a specific window. You could resolve the issue by just re-installing that desktop meta package, with re-install not being required.

[MAFoElffen]

Here is how those 5 subscription are counted... If you look closely, it counts what has been active in the "last 24 hours".

What I was told by the Ubuntu Pro Team, is if, for some reason there is a problem, to contact them and they will detach the old machine subscription for people, from their subscriptions.

There was a time when it first came out when, if you had a problem, you would have to generate a new machine ID, which a new install would generate that new machine id, so you should be good on both perspectives of that.

If I have any question with Ubuntu Pro, I go to: https://ubuntu.com/pro, and use the "Chat Now" dialog.