16.04 update/dist-upgrade (Solved)

[Grizzly]

14 March 2018  at 19:34, Grizzly via ubuntu-users wrote:
Re: 16.04 update/dist-upgrade (at least in part)

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

Many Many thanks Colin

>>The fact that you have autologin enabled and syslog is not showing anything
>>obvious means it may well be  a graphics problem after login 

Not exactly, it is a graphics problem, but autologon=off leaves the logon box 
behind the "black squiggles" and cant be seen, with autologon=on you get into 
the system, but still have the problem  

>Think you may have hit the nail there

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

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1724639  

Followed the bug report and the "work around" worked