Hi, me again. Just to let you know. After downgrading the xubuntu-system-tools, I can boot again. So this seems to be the problem. Let me know if I can check something to locate the problem better. Cheers, Stefan <div>2007/1/29, Stefan Schwarzburg <<a href="mailto:stefan.schwarzburg@googlemail.com">stefan.schwarzburg@googlemail.com</a>>:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Hi, <div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> A new xubuntu-system-tools will soon be available in the edgy-proposed repository, with a fix for this bug. Please test the package (it works fine for me), to make sure it really works. If everything goes fine, it'll be uploaded in edgy-updates.</blockquote><div> I updated the packages. Now  I can no longer boot ( though  I'm not sure if it is related to this update), but the recovery mode sometimes works ( and sometimes failes with "BUG: soft lockup detection on CPU#0! ). So in recovery mode, when I want to run the services-admin for example I get the following error message (along with a "configuration could not be loaded" popup): " </div></div> sudo services-admin (services-admin:4093): Liboobs-WARNING **: Failed to connect to socket /var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket: No such file or directory 4093: arguments to dbus_connection_add_filter() were incorrect, assertion "connection != NULL" failed in file dbus-connection.c line 4379. This is normally a bug in some application using the D-Bus library. 4093: arguments to dbus_connection_send_with_reply_and_block() were incorrect, assertion "connection != NULL" failed in file dbus-connection.c line 2873. This is normally a bug in some application using the D-Bus library. (services-admin:4093): Liboobs-CRITICAL **: run_message: assertion `oobs_session_get_connected (priv->session)' failed 4093: arguments to dbus_connection_send_with_reply_and_block() were incorrect, assertion "connection != NULL" failed in file dbus-connection.c line 2873. This is normally a bug in some application using the D-Bus library. " If you think that this is not related to to the update of the packages, then please give me a hint, where the problems could be. Thanks, Stefan<div> -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Institut für Astronomie und Astrophysik Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen Sand 1   -  D-72076 Tübingen <a href="mailto:schwarz@astro.uni-tuebingen.de" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"> schwarz@astro.uni-tuebingen.de</a> <a href="mailto:stefan.schwarzburg@googlemail.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"> stefan.schwarzburg@googlemail.com</a> Tel.: 07071/29-78605 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- </div></blockquote></div> -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Institut für Astronomie und Astrophysik Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen Sand 1   -  D-72076 Tübingen <a href="mailto:schwarz@astro.uni-tuebingen.de">schwarz@astro.uni-tuebingen.de</a> <a href="mailto:stefan.schwarzburg@googlemail.com">stefan.schwarzburg@googlemail.com</a> Tel.: 07071/29-78605 -----------------------------------------------------------------------