I am *SO* going to turn off automatic updates.

[Chanchao]

Senectus . wrote:

> There is a rare fault with that one update, the fix is on the forum
> but in the community spirit here it is on a silver platter for you :-)

Thanks!! Note that any forum e-mails on this would have been downloaded 
to Evolution on Ubuntu while it still worked.  Had a lot to do yesterday 
so didn't read the forum. Then this morning the thing doesn't start, 
with no real way to get to those posts or even the general web from my 
Ubuntu installation. (Well, "apt-get lynx" would have worked I suppose...)

Anyway, I appreciate the silver platter. :)

> An update was released for Dapper on 21 August 2006 UTC, which has
> been found to cause problems on certain systems.

Yah.. Mine was a HP/Compaq notebook, P4, couple years old.

>    1. At this point, hold the left Alt key and press the F1 key.
>    2. Type in your username, as you would to login to the computer,
> and press Enter
>    3. Then type your password and press Enter.
>    4. Type sudo apt-get update and press Enter
>    5.Type your password again and press Enter.
>    6.Type sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg-core and press Enter. This
> will install an update on your computer, and you will see the text
> changing on the screen.
>    7. Hold Control and Alt and press Delete. This will reboot your
> system in a functional state.

Ok,thanks loads!! Going to reboot and try it now.

Cheers,
Chanchao