<div dir="ltr">It sounds like a Video Driver issue. Try hitting the shift or escape keys while booting and choose the recovery option from the list. Amichai. <div id="WISESTAMP_SIG_7750"></div> <div class="gmail_quote"> On Sun, Oct 7, 2012 at 6:48 PM, Mikie <<a href="mailto:kmb@mikienet.com" target="_blank">kmb@mikienet.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> <div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"> <div> Hey Nice List People, I had just three days ago loaded 12.04 Ubuntu 64 bit Desktop on my ASUS MB, Intel core i7 no problems. I ran sudo apt-get update and then upgrade no problem. Installed VMWARE Workstation 9 for Linux no problem. Created a few VM's no problem and they all ran no problem. Rebooted many times no problem. Well … here it is Sunday and I see the pop up for 107 updates so I foolishly say ok and then it wants to reboot. After the reboot xwindow will not start and I get a text login prompt: Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS vplay tty1 vplay login: I can log in but when I sudo startx … I get gobble de gook and lines on the screen. Anyone else with issues on this recent update? </div> </div> -- ubuntu-users mailing list <a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users</a> </blockquote></div> </div>