9.10 - 10.04 upgrade, no login.

[bug2k9]

I've just ran the upgrade from 9.10 to 10.04 via the online update manager.
It rebooted and now hangs at the text screen before any graphical login screen appears.

The last line on screen appears to show a failure to connect to a cifs share on my other windows computer.

I've tried to select the recovery menu, which then appears but the keyboard does not allow any of the options to be selected with the arrow keys or any other I tried, I've tried a ps2 keyboard and that doesn't allow any selections either. But it is possible to use ctrl-alt-del to reboot from this non responsive menu.

Any ideas would be appreciated.

[Dutch70]

Did you try the Tab key?

[bug2k9]

I did, had no effect either.

[Dutch70]

What about other boot options?
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1613132 (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1613132)

[bug2k9]

Thanks for the help.

Got it working, at the point it looks like it's hung, use alt-f2 and login.
Then sudo apt-get -f install
This completed, I rebooted and I'm now able to log in to the updated version.

[Dutch70]

Nice, glad you got it working.

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