[ale] Upgrading to 9.10 hosed my system :-(

[Jeff Hubbs]

See, this is a bandwagon I hated being on...it was the same with 
Mandrake/Mandriva, and all the others...Gentoo, on the other hand, is 
versionless; every package's release situation is semi-independent 
(except where there are dependencies, and they get taken care of by the 
Portage system).

JK wrote:
> I just upgraded my excellent 9.04 Ubuntu box to 9.10, and now all has
> turned to sh*t.  X won't start, the screen flickers madly even in
> text mode, and the keyboard doesn't work right - it only sees approximately
> every fifth key I type. This is just a disaster :-((( (imagine the little
> overhead bar meaning "last '(' repeated infinitely").
>
> Any advice?  I can at least log in via ssh, so I can copy /home off
> somewhere else and do a fresh install of 9.04.  Seems like there should
> be an easier way.  (I am generally clueless about modern package
> management, all I know how to do with apt is "install some_package".
> It is a sad state of affairs for a person who first built a 0.90
> kernel off floppies in 1992.)
>
> Very very sad :-(
>
> -- JK
>
> PS - WAAAH!
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