On Sat, Dec 29, 2012, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote about "A funny thing happend to me tonight.": > run fine, so tonight I did a software update on the Ubuntu system. > > It boots, I get a login screen and when I log in I get a blank > screen. Totally black with a white cursor. >... > I'm trying plan B, which is to install KDE and see if it works.
Do you see a text screen with a *text* cursor or a *mouse* cursor? If it's the former, I can't see how this could be KDE or Gnome related... Try looking in /var/log for any X server messages, or try to run X yourself (startx) to see if you can see any hints of what's wrong. -- Nadav Har'El | Sunday, Dec 30 2012, 17 Tevet 5773 n...@math.technion.ac.il |----------------------------------------- Phone +972-523-790466, ICQ 13349191 |Diplomat: one who tells you to go to hell http://nadav.harel.org.il |in a way you look forward to the trip. _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il