<html><head></head><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue-Light, Helvetica Neue Light, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:16px"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1454878069477_2712" dir="ltr">on the laptop it remains black, but i managed to get it working again with a nuke and pave of xubunutu 14.04<br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1454878069477_2713"><span></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1454878069477_2714"> </div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1454878069477_2715" class="signature"><font id="yui_3_16_0_1_1454878069477_2721" face="lucida console, sans-serif" color="#407f00">Welcome to the zoo</font></div> <div class="qtdSeparateBR"><br><br></div><div style="display: block;" class="yahoo_quoted"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, Helvetica Neue Light, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div dir="ltr"><font face="Arial" size="2"> On Sunday, February 7, 2016 3:46 PM, Peter Flynn <peter@silmaril.ie> wrote:<br></font></div> <br><br> <div class="y_msg_container">On 07/02/16 19:20, Tim Preston wrote:<br clear="none">> I have the exact same issue on my laptop and desktop while attempting to<br clear="none">> do the same thing. even trying a fresh 15.10 install wasn't working for me<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Does the screen light up at all when you power up? Or is it permanently<br clear="none">dead.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">If it's always black, you probably have a dead screen.<br clear="none">If it lights up and lets you work for a bit, and then goes black,<br clear="none">it might be the backlight or the inverter.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">I managed to fix mine...for the moment.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Trusting that the absent disk-light meant the update was paused for a<br clear="none">dialog, I held down the power button and forced a reboot. It came back<br clear="none">(so perhaps the black-out *wasn't* connected with the inverter?) with a<br clear="none">full-screen console and about 10 short messages that went past too fast<br clear="none">to read, then cleared and showed a login prompt.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">I logged in and used sudo dpkg --configure -a to restart the upgrade.<br clear="none">This ran, but with some messages about missing configs, unresolved<br clear="none">dependencies etc -- I have seen these before in a normal upgrade to<br clear="none">15.10, so I think they are bugs rather than a breakage on my system.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Finally it finished and I rebooted normally, and it's running X again,<br clear="none">but if I use apt-get, there is a very long list of packages which it<br clear="none">*claims* are no longer needed, but at this stage I have no way to tell<br clear="none">if this is true or if it's a result of a few things having been messed<br clear="none">about in the process. In a normal version upgrade I'd expect maybe 10-20<br clear="none">packages no longer needed, but this list has maybe 50+. I'll leave it<br clear="none">until I do a regular upgrade (usually weekly) and see what happens.<div class="yqt1599360542" id="yqtfd12126"><br clear="none"><br clear="none">///Peter<br clear="none"><br clear="none"><br clear="none"><br clear="none">-- <br clear="none">xubuntu-users mailing list<br clear="none"><a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:xubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com" href="mailto:xubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">xubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a><br clear="none">Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a shape="rect" href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-users" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-users</a><br clear="none"></div><br><br></div> </div> </div> </div></div></body></html>