On 25/03/06, Bruce Badger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The system hung with the blank screen there and nothing else > happening. The system responds to pings, but does not visibly respond > to any keyboard input (e.g. trying to select other ttys).
I restarted in recovery mode (from the Grub menu) and got a root prompt quite quickly. startx started X and Gnome fine, except for some scary messages about failing to initialise HAL and dbus not running. I ran the system upgrade and restarted and lo! Thinks came up fine. ... now to try recording from the built-in mic -- Make the most of your skills - with OpenSkills http://www.openskills.org/ -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html