Clean installed after a patchy dist upgrade with seemingly random application crashes.
Landed at the failed boot, black screen and blinking login text. jumped through various virtual terminals with ctrl+alt+F1-F6 until one stopped flashing and permitted normal operation. Then I used FTP to download the 190.42 package as described by Lapdog on this page http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1305459&page=3 though I did add in a step "sudo service gdm stop" before running the package in step 7 This permitted the machine to boot normally when I rebooted and touch wood, has behaved since. Installing the Nvidia driver like this means next Kernal update I may have a problem again (I think?), is there a step I can take now to head that off and have normal behaviour from the pesky machine? -- upgrade breaks graphic drivers and x, preventing login or startx https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/464591 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs