On Thu, 1 Dec 2011, Rich Shepard wrote:

>  The xubuntu laptop here was running 10.10 and I just started a
> distribution upgrade on it. 11.04 was the only one on offer. When this
> upgrade is finished and I start the upgrade manager again will 11.11. be
> offered?

   Well! As some point during file download the OS decided that there was
something wrong with the screensaver but did not offer options to fix it or
turn it off. Since I had no way to see the display and determine if the
upgrade was done, I switched to tty2, logged in as root, and killed
xscreensaver. That locked the system and took away the cursor. No way to
change console, move the cursor, or anything.

   I'm now downloading the xubuntu-11.10.iso and will re-install.
Fortunately, ~/ was backup on on a flash drive just a couple of days ago.

   Has anyone else experienced this? I've done package and distribution
upgrades before on that box and they always went smoothly.

Rich
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