Ubuntu 11.10 freezes at splash screen

[Jerry M]

Hello,

I have been using ubuntu 11.10 for 3 months now. However, suddenly after installing the latest updates the desktop PC freezes at splash screen. I tried to disable graphics and get tty1 but when i try to restart graphics it stucks. My graphic card is NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT (rev a2).
Could you please guide me with how to troubleshoot this issue.

Thanks,

Jerry

[Jerry M]

Here are the last three messages from the system before it freezes:
* Starting Bluetooth OK
* PulseAudio configured for per-user session
saned disabled; edit /etc/default/saned
* Checking battery state.... OK



Does that make any sense to anyone?

PS. Ubuntu is the only OS currently installed at my desktop

[bogan]

Hi! jerry M,

There are several threads reprting similar difficulties following the recent updates to the nvidia-current driver. see for instance my post:http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=11844097&posted=1#post11844097


* Checking battery state.... OK This usually means video driver problems.

Chao!, bogan.

[Jerry M]

Thanks for your reply bogan, indeed it was a video card driver problem.
I had to run the following command



sudo dkpg --configure -a

which among others updated my current nvidia driver.

I also found the following helpful

http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=11358332&postcount=6


best,

Jerry