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.
