ubuntu upgrade

[dsr-mzpnVDyJpH4k7aNtvndDlA at public.gmane.org (Dan Ritter)]

On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 10:58:47AM -0400, j. daniel moylan wrote:
> some months ago i did an on-line upgrade on my asus netbook
> from ubuntu 9.10 to 10.04.  it went smoothly with zero
> problems.
> 
> yesterday i did the same upgrade on my panasonic cf-50.
> the login screen looked fine, but when i went to log in,
> gnome wouldn't come up -- just a blank screen with a bit
> of flicker.  logging in remotely works fine.
> 
> what are my options?  how would i best reinstall just gnome?
> any suggestions welcome.

I would guess that you have a new X driver that doesn't work
well with your video hardware. Try ALT-F1 to get to a console
screen and then reconfigure X.

-dsr-


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