[GLLUG] Help with 17.10 update

[Marcus Harriott]

Chaps 

Urgent help sought. I am a computer idiot. I have been running Ubuntu 16.04 successfully for 2 years and last week the computer upgraded me to Ubuntu 17.10.
Then my troubles started.
It boots up and goes to the password page, I enter it, it goes to  the desktop but when I click on any item in the launcher (eg Mozilla or Thunderbird) the spinning wheel spins forever and then the keyboard and mouse become useless after 30-40 seconds. Even if I do nothing the keyboard and mouse become useless...
I have a Dell precision 390 core duo PC

Any ideas what I can do

most grateful 
Thanks
M

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On Tue, 20/2/18, Martin A. Brooks via GLLUG <gllug at mailman.lug.org.uk> wrote:

 Subject: Re: [GLLUG] [OT]  Essex/Havering hack space
 To: "Martin A. Brooks" <martin at hinterlands.org>, "The mailing list for the Greater London Linux User Group" <gllug at mailman.lug.org.uk>
 Date: Tuesday, 20 February, 2018, 21:41
 
 On 2018-02-14 17:24, Martin A. Brooks via
 GLLUG wrote:
 > Hello
 > 
 > I have vague thoughts in my head
 about attempting to start an
 > Essex/Havering combined hackspace
 and makerspace.  There are no such
 > facilities within the area that I
 can find, and there are bound to be
 > at least some interested people
 lurking.
 
 
 Further to this...
 
 https://forum.haveringhack.space/
 
 
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