FWIW, on my first reboot (after the failed update), kernel 2.6.28-13 was selected by GRUB, but during (and after) boot, my video drivers (fglrx) were obviously messed; my display was a conglomeration of uninitialized/scattered coloured pixels on a black background, including the mouse pointer, which was movable as a square "blob" if mostly black and white "static" (video white noise) pixels. I was able to see text- mode consoles okay (e.g. press CTRL-ALT-F1).
I rebooted, and selected my previous working kernel (2.6.28-11) from the runtime GRUB menu, which booted just fine (video okay), and I then edited menu.lst to select that kernel by default. I will leave it as such until an *explanation of the problem* appears (or I figure it out myself). My menu.lst is fine; I understand how it works (including the automagical section, etc), and I confirmed that the changes made by the update process were okay (I compared them to a previous version; I keep old versions of important files like menu.lst and xorg.conf because I still don't trust machines to modify them competently). Keep in mind that although my original bug report got folded into this one as a duplicate, it probably does differ at least a bit, insofar as my exit status code from the failures was different, and I'm running restricted video drivers (they were implicated in my report, but are not referenced in this one). -- package linux-image-2.6.28-13-generic 2.6.28-13.44 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 10 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/388923 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
