A funny thing happend to me tonight.

[Geoffrey S. Mendelson]

Last week I installed Ubuntu 12.10 and Windows 7 on a laptop. Both run 
fine, so tonight I did a software update on the Ubuntu system.

It boots, I get a login screen and when I log in I get a blank screen. 
Totally black with a white cursor.

An Xterm started from the console starts, but nothing show up on the 
screen. Once with a lot of playing around I got the Ubuntu icons from 
their new system on the left, but they were inactive and the menu bar at 
the top was blank.

So either it is a X Windows problem and I'm stuck, or it's a gnome 
problem and I am partially stuck. I tried removing my gnome setting 
directory and it did not help.

The old options of a failsafe session or a lower res or 2d session are 
gone.

I'm trying plan B, which is to install KDE and see if it works.

Luckily I have a fast internet connection, it download around 500 packages.

Geoff.
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Geoffrey S. Mendelson,  N3OWJ/4X1GM/KBUH7245/KBUW5379
"Owning a smartphone: Technology's equivalent to learning to play
chopsticks on the piano as a child and thinking you're a musician."
(sent to me by a friend)