-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 10/04/13 19:50, Frank Griffin wrote: > On 04/10/2013 02:21 PM, Anne Wilson wrote: >> Out of curiosity I tried the distro upgrade. It appeared to >> complete, but booted to a blank screen, so I didn't waste any >> more time on it. I started afresh and did a clean install (though >> keeping /home). >> >> Something occurred to me today that may or may not be relevant. >> This problem with the Intel drivers being removed may not be a >> very new problem. I was running Cauldron successfully on this >> netbook for a long time, up to early January. Then I went away >> for three weeks. When I returned near the end of January I >> switched on and did a big update. After that I had a black >> screen, much like the current one. >> >> I thought it might be because something important had happened >> while I was away so that I had not made a necessary change at the >> right time, so I waited for the opportunity to do this install. >> It may be, then, that this was my first experience of this same >> bug. > ... >> As I said earlier, it was a clean install, not an upgrade, and >> it completed perfectly. I then rebooted as usual, and >> immediately used MCC to add all other media sources, and did the >> big update. This is when it went pear-shaped. >> > OK, so what did you do the clean install from ? From this last > bit, it sounds like it was working after the install if you could > boot and use MCC to add other media. I'm curious as to the > timeframe window of what you installed and what you updated to.
I downloaded the latest beta - and checked the sha1sum before installing. It worked perfectly. I configured eth0 as dhcp, knowing that I'd have to get the wifi drivers later. I did the update immediately after the install - that would be the 3rd April, when I started this thread. I've now got those files from /root/drakx onto a usb stick - should I start the bug report now with those files? Anne -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iEYEARECAAYFAlFlvk4ACgkQj93fyh4cnBctCQCgiZZqTXCtTghyuFAB5wu6EeoT XRMAmwYR7dHQTf6fzt/qzIQW7N9MS09e =ksb8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----