Last week I installed Ubuntu 12.10 and Windows 7 on a laptop. Both run fine, so tonight I did a software update on the Ubuntu system.
It boots, I get a login screen and when I log in I get a blank screen. Totally black with a white cursor.
An Xterm started from the console starts, but nothing show up on the screen. Once with a lot of playing around I got the Ubuntu icons from their new system on the left, but they were inactive and the menu bar at the top was blank.
So either it is a X Windows problem and I'm stuck, or it's a gnome problem and I am partially stuck. I tried removing my gnome setting directory and it did not help.
The old options of a failsafe session or a lower res or 2d session are gone.
I'm trying plan B, which is to install KDE and see if it works. Luckily I have a fast internet connection, it download around 500 packages. Geoff. -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson, N3OWJ/4X1GM/KBUH7245/KBUW5379 "Owning a smartphone: Technology's equivalent to learning to play chopsticks on the piano as a child and thinking you're a musician." (sent to me by a friend) _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
