Upgrade 8.04 to 8.10 problems

[mike_mango]

Hi,

I'm a complete newbie and have created a problem for myself. Perhaps someone can shed some light?

I had just installed 8.04 a few days ago and the update manager indicated that an upgrade to 8.10 was available. So I proceeded with the upgrade (selecting the default options) which completed and asked to be reset.

After the reset Ubuntu would not finish the boot process. It gets to the screen where I enter in my username/password, continues on a bit further and then just stops.

Is there any easy fix or am I best to reinstall from a CD?

Thanks in advance,
Mike

[mike_mango]

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[mike_mango]

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