Alan, just thought I'd get back to you, I had a crack at this again today and found that many others <http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=963853>have had the same problem. I finally go back to the Gnome Desktop but the upgrade has removed Open Office, Firefox, Network Manger, Compiz Fusion etc. etc. I started reinstalling packages and finally tried to get Compiz Fusion going again so I installed xorg-driver-fglrx for my ATI Radeon X600 video card. This just caused another freeze on re-boot so I removed the driver.
I have decide to do a fresh install of 8.04.1 and steer clear of 8.10 for the time being as this has been the most catastrophic upgrade I've ever seen and I will not be upgrading any of my other machines. Cheers George 2008/10/31 Alan Pope <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > 2008/10/31 George MacLeod <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > 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 > > This was possibly not wise. For future reference if you have a > situation where the system is in a dodgy state, a restart is probably > not the best course of action at that point. > > > I've tried to reboot several times with the same result and booting into > > recovery mode just leaves me hanging at a terminal prompt. > > > > A logon prompt? If so can you logon okay? > > > Needless to say I will not be upgrading any of my other machines until I > can > > get this fixed. > > Conversely I have upgraded 5 machines and not had this kind of issue. > > > My PC is a Dell Dimension Dual boot with XP on a corporate LAN. > > > > What's the package history on the machine? Have you ever used > automatix or something similar to install packages? What do you have > in /etc/apt/sources.list and any files in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ ? > > Is the "ubuntu-desktop" package still installed (assuming you can get > logged in), type this:- > > dpkg -l ubuntu-desktop > > (that's a lower case L). > > Cheers, > Al. > > -- > [email protected] > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ >
-- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
