If you apply today's libc6 updates, and reboot... you'll find that the nvidia driver fails to start up. This will hang your machine at a black screen (with the nvidia logo popping up occassionaly) while it's trying to start X.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...80/+bug/429003
To recover, boot in recovery mode, choose the root console option, and reinstall the old packages (they'll most likely still be in the cache) with:
Use the 'exit' command to get back to the recovery console, choose 'resume' to continue the normal bootup... and everything should work fine.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...80/+bug/429003
To recover, boot in recovery mode, choose the root console option, and reinstall the old packages (they'll most likely still be in the cache) with:
Code:
sudo dpkg -i /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6-i386_2.10.1-0ubuntu9_amd64.deb /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6_2.10.1-0ubuntu9_amd64.deb
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