Michael If the new version boots and you can ssh to log in, then most likely either X.org or a GPU driver did not update fully or correctly. This is very typical for proprietary nvidia drivers, or any proprietary hardware drivers that install a kernel module. You might try using the command line tools to reinstall the GPU and X bits. I'm not sure it Ubuntu switched to wayland with this release so perhaps check on that. Remember to read the release notes etc before clicking "upgrade"
Nuking from orbit, as Dick suggests after backup, will certainly work. Personally run a Linux distribution to avoid such "windowesque" fixes. Ed > On May 12, 2017, at 11:36 AM, Dick Steffens <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 05/12/2017 11:24 AM, Michael Barnes wrote: >> I rebooted again and at the grub screen chose 14.04LTS. Everything came up >> normally. After login, I get a pop-up window that says 14.04 is out dated >> and no longer supported. Anyhow, display and everything works, so I know at >> least the hardware is okay. Shutdown and restart, let grub screen choose >> default and back to blank screens. I can ssh in and shutdown from remote >> session. Screens give Ubuntu shutdown splash just before power off. > > Having been on this list a fairly long time, I've followed the advice of > others who say one should not use the "upgrade" path to move from one > Ubuntu release to another, but should start with a fresh install. I have > gone from Ubuntu 10 to 12 to 14, and am slowly moving to 16. Each time I > had the luxury of being able to at least put in a fresh hard drive for > the new version, and then mount the old hard drive to be able to copy > files as needed. I don't think any of the episodes has been painless, > since it seems there's always something big that changes so that it > doesn't work the way it did in the previous version, but I have always > been able to get past it, often with the help of folks on this list. > > So, in your case, I'd recommend using Grub to boot to your previous > version, find a way to back up all your important files, and install 16 > from scratch. Better would be to have two machines, but not everyone has > that luxury. I'm happy that I do have that option this time, because > there are a handful of things I have yet to be able to figure out how to > do in 16 that I need on at least a weekly basis, if not a daily one. > > -- > Regards, > > Dick Steffens > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
