16.04 update/dist-upgrade

[Grizzly]

14 March 2018  at 16:34, Colin Law wrote:
Re: 16.04 update/dist-upgrade (at least in part)

>The fact that you have autologin enabled and syslog is not showing anything
>obvious means it may well be  a graphics problem after login and not a boot
>problem at all.  What graphics card do you have?

Think you may have hit the nail there

It's an Intel Mobile 945GM, which seems to have a problem similar

https://askubuntu.com/questions/1014020/installed-ubuntu-into-an-old-notebook-un
readable-screen-artifacts