Dapper Flight 6 Latest Update - Hanging

[Graham Dickinson]

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*>>* I'm a Kubuntu newbie and had successfully installed Flight 6 on my machine
*>>* (nothing special), was working fine. Today I find that Kernel
*>>* 2.6.15-20-386 has been installed automatically, and now the machine hangs
*>>* on the initial splash screen after the 'loading...' drivers, etc.
*>>*
*>>* Anyone else expereincing this and any suggestions?
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>I am not experiencing it, in part because I am somewhat afraid of using the
>latest version, knowing it could break at any time <g>.
>
>When I used to do that regularly, one trick I had was to boot in single user
>mode (when the Grub menu comes up, hit e to edit the command line and put a
>" 1" at the end of the boot line.  Then you can run an apt-get update and
>apt-get upgrade to get the fixes, which are usually out the next day.
>
>Another option is to choose an older kernel from the Grub menu and see if
>that still works.

Thanks a lot John...
I have the machine setup as dual boot with Gnome (sorry! - I prefer
Kubuntu tho') Flight 5 in the other partition.
I can boot from this partion ok, but not from the Kubuntu partition
despite trying earlier versions.
I will now try what u suggest.
Thinking about it more it may be that the auto update was interupted
in some way and hence the install is incomplete/corrupt.
There seems to be an error message displaying but it is overwritten by
the splash
screen (the one that hangs) before I can read it.I was thinking along
the lines of
redoing the upgrade via the command line, but wasn't quite sure of the
process so thanks for your info.

"To err is human; to really screw things up requires a computer"
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