Yesterday I got an update notification from Lucid and ran it. I continued to use this computer until I shut down last night.
This morning the boot up process appeared to hang trying to create the xserver and gave me an unresponsive black screen and mouse. I did a Ctrl+Alt+del, which forced a reboot. Same problem. On the next boot I held the Shift key down to get the Grub2 menu.
I noticed that the 2.6.32-22 Linux kernel was now the default. I also had the 32-18 through 32-22 kernels available on the Grub menu. I chose the recovery setting for the 32-22 kernel. On the blue and red console menu I chose "continue with the boot". The process stopped at a CLI login prompt. I logged in as myself. Then I issued
sudo /etc/init.d/kdm start
and the KDE4.4.2 desktop came up.
Using Synaptic I removed the 32.018 kernel and related files and then from a Konsole issued
update-grub2
When it was done I rebooted.
My system now comes up normally. I suspect it wasn't an xserver issue but a grub issue.
This morning the boot up process appeared to hang trying to create the xserver and gave me an unresponsive black screen and mouse. I did a Ctrl+Alt+del, which forced a reboot. Same problem. On the next boot I held the Shift key down to get the Grub2 menu.
I noticed that the 2.6.32-22 Linux kernel was now the default. I also had the 32-18 through 32-22 kernels available on the Grub menu. I chose the recovery setting for the 32-22 kernel. On the blue and red console menu I chose "continue with the boot". The process stopped at a CLI login prompt. I logged in as myself. Then I issued
sudo /etc/init.d/kdm start
and the KDE4.4.2 desktop came up.
Using Synaptic I removed the 32.018 kernel and related files and then from a Konsole issued
update-grub2
When it was done I rebooted.
My system now comes up normally. I suspect it wasn't an xserver issue but a grub issue.