Hi, I've just had my first *really* bad experience with Ubuntu and thought I'd post this to the list in case anyone has any solutions.
I have been using Ubuntu since 5.04 and have never had a major problem until now. I have upgrade before via CD and via the network and always with only minor issue, if any, until now. I ran the network upgrade as before to go from 8.04 to 8.10 and everything went as it had in the past, until the final stage when I was asked to OK the removal of obsolete packages. I thought nothing of it as this is normal, but alarm bells stated ringing when I saw Firefox, Evolution, compiz and Xorg being removed, but the process had already started. I then clicked restart at the end and that's when I realised all was not well. The PC rebooted and I got the Ubuntu splash and loading screen then this flashed on the screen 4 times then just stayed there, nothing else happened :- *starting anac(h)ronistic cron anacron *starting deferred execution scheduler atd *starting periodic command scheduler crond *checking battery state... *running local boot scripts (/etc/rc.local) I've tried to reboot several times with the same result and booting into recovery mode just leaves me hanging at a terminal prompt. Needless to say I will not be upgrading any of my other machines until I can get this fixed. My PC is a Dell Dimension Dual boot with XP on a corporate LAN. Cheers George
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