Hoary commits hara-kiri

[dylan burns]

Had few to no problems with Hoary since its release (sound problems & dvdrw
DMA).
Some of the recent security updates (assuming kernel fixes) have caused xorg
lockups, which I thought I fixed/delayed by disabling my screensavers.
Not so.

Was just updating from Hoary to Breezy today (while doing other work on the
computer). Due to the insanely slow speeds the time to download updates was
expanded from 45min. to over 7hrs!
Went away from my computer for a few seconds & when I returned, xorg & all
my apps were locked good & frozen. No ctrl-alt-backspace, no ctrl-alt-F*.
Only thing that worked was my mouse.
After a hard reset & filesystem check I get to the NVidia logo screen which
exits back to this screen:
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ctrl-alt-F* brings up a login screen which when used does nothing (hangs).

First, any help would be greatly appreciated as now I'm relegated to using
the house Windows machine (not mine).

Second, well today I had my wisdom teeth removed so I'm a bit cranky, but if
Breezy has any hopes of competeing with Vista (as they aspire to) they're
going to have to improve the stability of the system above that of Windows
98!
Ranting aside, I'm now using this box to download Breezy & as a last resort,
will try a fresh install (hopefully) preserving my home & data partitions.
(Think I'll also download Debian Sarge while I'm at it).
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