<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> <title></title> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> I was able to boot into text mode by editing the Grub menu entry, and this was stable. Unfortunately this isn't a "spare" machine for me - I need it to work reliably. For the time being I am downgrading to 9.10. But I'll be changing back when stability has been fixed.<br> <br> Ian<br> <br> On 06/08/2010 22:08, Greg wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:AANLkTin0cCycTjX_irFostGrrMa5ff=ODzCN510m+x-_@mail.gmail.com" type="cite">I also experienced this.  However, a newer version of the kernel was installed too.  When I chose the previous kernel through grub, it booted up properly, though i got some errors about apparmor with the older kernel.<br> <br> <div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 7:11 PM, Ian Sage <span dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:ian.sage@tiscali.co.uk">ian.sage@tiscali.co.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br> <blockquote style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;" class="gmail_quote"> <div text="#000000" bgcolor="#ffffff">Further to this - package installed updates this evening. X now crashes immediately on bootup to black scree with unresponsive mouse pointer. This is more severe - I can't Putty into the account after the crash, which I could previously (before any fixes applied)<br> <br> Ian<br> </div> </blockquote> </div> </blockquote> <snip><br> </body> </html>