[ubuntu-in] 9.04 collapsing in a heap after updates

[Gora Mohanty]

Hi,

  Not using 9.04 at the moment, but many of your problems
seem to have to do with a corrupted .Xauthority, or an
issue with permissions on .Xauthority. If the user in
question is not currently logged into the GUI, you can
safely delete ~/.Xauthority (or move it to ~/.Xauthority.bak
if you are paranoid), and it will be recreated.

That should fix at least some of the issues. The other
possibility is that you have some display hardware that
needs a restricted Linux kernel module, and it cannot
work because your packages seem not to be configured
correctly. If so, you should still be able to boot into
an older kernel from the Grub boot menu.

Regards,
Gora