As the geek that I am it was too tempting to immediately upgrade to the latest version of my (current) beloved linux distro. I expected everything to run smoothly – which as reality showed me again – is often not the case. And yes – I should have known better

The Upgrade ran without problems, but after restarting my system – a black screen was greeting me. A bit of research using Links showed me that I am not the only one running into problems after the upgrade.

After tinkering around and wasting almost a whole night I managed to have KDM, X and my Desktop running again.

If you are running into similar problems – Kubuntu Ugrade to 8.10 – X Server doesn’t start – KDM not default Display Manager, please have a read of my post to the Ubuntu Forums where I summarized my efforts getting my X-Server and Desktop back.

Not such a pleasant start – but I am looking forward