[cumbria_lug] Impudent Impala

[Dave Murphy]

On Thu, 30 Oct 2008 18:28:20 +0000
R C Mitchell <rcm at swimbarrow.co.uk> wrote:

> ... or whatever it's called.  Ubuntu 8.10

\o/ 

It was bloody hard work though - we were still testing ISO images this
morning!

> I upgraded this afternoon.  The upgrade went fine, and as you see I
> can do text mode quit happily, but as soon as the Gnome login screen
> comes up, it waits for a few seconds and then the screen goes white
> and the whole system freezes up.
> 
> Any bright ideas, anybody?

Which graphics card do you have?

Does X work with a Live CD?

Does `startx` work from a console? If not, try running `dpkg-reconfigure
xserver-xorg`. If you're at all unsure, go with the conservative
options.

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