djmoore
July 18th, 2009, 09:09 AM
I started with an 8.10 install, and upgraded to 9.04. Everything worked as well as could be expected for a couple of weeks.
A few days ago, I noticed updates were available, so I ran the update tool, and rebooted.
Boots up fine, but on logging in, the screen goes black, with a normal white mouse pointer. The pointer moves, but otherwise seems to do nothing.
I can get a terminal with ctrl-alt-F1, shutdown -r 0, and at the login choose to change to a failsafe gnome session. That starts fine, and in fact I am accessing this site through FireFox in the failsafe session.
I'm prepared to re-install 9.04 from a CD if necessary, but I'd really rather learn how to track down what's wrong and fix it.
At the very least, I'd like to find the log that tells me what's happening as I boot up and login to gnome.
I'm running on an AMD cpu and an NVIDIA video board.
I'll appreciate any pointers I can get.
A few days ago, I noticed updates were available, so I ran the update tool, and rebooted.
Boots up fine, but on logging in, the screen goes black, with a normal white mouse pointer. The pointer moves, but otherwise seems to do nothing.
I can get a terminal with ctrl-alt-F1, shutdown -r 0, and at the login choose to change to a failsafe gnome session. That starts fine, and in fact I am accessing this site through FireFox in the failsafe session.
I'm prepared to re-install 9.04 from a CD if necessary, but I'd really rather learn how to track down what's wrong and fix it.
At the very least, I'd like to find the log that tells me what's happening as I boot up and login to gnome.
I'm running on an AMD cpu and an NVIDIA video board.
I'll appreciate any pointers I can get.