8.10 upgrade fails PC hangs on reboot

[meganox]

There is no problem with /etc/rc.local, it's just that this was the last thing to be printed on screen. It's no doubt and Xorg issue. There are lots of posts about this, many people's video hardware is not working after this upgrade ATI cards in particular.

[hunteramor]

Does everyone having this problem have an nvidia card?

I have the same issue. Dropping into terminal and attempting apt-get upgrade, I find that it's running into problems with package nvidia-glx, which I've then tried to remove/update/reinstall every way I know to no avail.

[p.n]

Unfortunately I opted to remove all previous kernels so there is nothing there boot into... I am still stumped. Tried to run dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg, but this does nothing to my video drivers.

It is as if there is no screen or video card at all at all!

[banzairx7]

I have an old kernel listed but when I try to boot from it it says it can't find it. I'm running an nvidia card.

I'm running right now off the 8.10 live cd. Everything works AOK from this.
Luckily most of what I need to access is web based.

[themusicwave]

Based on what I previously posted, I do believe this is a Xorg issue.

For more information I have an Nvida card, specifically a NVidia Geoforce Go 7300.

I do remember seeing something about glx-new and an error pass by when I was watching it install packages this morning as part of the update.

Also, it looks like Gnome is trying to work. When I do a sudo halt now, I see a message indicating Gnome Display Manager is being stopped.

I haven't tried a previous kernel, I'll give that a shot.

[KrystianJ]

I'm getting the same thing, computer hangs on reboot, also running an nvidia video card.

[Sevy]

Same here.Hangs on Running local boot scripts (/etc/rc.local)
Also the new kernel doesnt appear in grub menu

[jikuty]

I'm also having the same problem, and I believe it's a video-card related issue. When booting, the screen flickers about 3-4 times before hanging at the spot mentioned. If I hit CTRL+ALT+DEL, it shows that it's halting the Gnome Display Manager, as well as a whole lot of other programs that would normally start up if it booted properly. If I go into Terminal mode and try to run 'gdm', it says that it's already running!

I'm using a Thinkpad T61 with an Nvidia NVS140M card.

[p.n]

OK, I gave up. I did a re-install from scratch from the CD. Fortunately I hade my /home on a different partition and it picked up my settigns very nicely.

I am up and running again and will leave the figuring out of this problem to you guys...

[jikuty]

I might also do a fresh install if nothing is figured out in a little while. I have my /home in a different partition as well, so it shouldn't be too much of a hassle.