blank screen after boot-up after failed upgrade

[Detlef Lechner]

blittle2 at nyc.rr.com wrote:
> 
> Later, I went into grub and chose one of the recovery modes and told
> Ubuntu to fix broken packages and it began to proceed with the broken
> packages and installation. This seemed to fix the startup issue which
> I think was just hangin at the error messages I posted earlier. Now
> I'm able to log in, however the system hangs on a blank desktop and
> never shows the gui. Just a mouse arrow.

Your description of the present state of your machine is incomplete.
Try to log in on a virtual console and continue upgrading to Ubuntu
8.10. What error messages to you encounter?

Detlef