[StaffsLUG General] Re: Ubuntu Crash.

Hey Geoff, I'm guessing this is perhaps Ubuntu 18.04 or higher?  And perhaps you started to get this crash shortly after updating your kernel and/or graphics drivers/card? Basically that last thing in the boot sequence (the 'GNOME Display Manager', or GDM) is the thing that starts up X.org (which is the process that runs the graphical environment)... and since you can still see text, that must not be working. I'd advice rebooting into recovery mode and from the recovery menu there might be an option for something like 'failsafeX' or something like that... so that you can get back into the graphical environment with a safe low-end graphics mode to fix things. Probably a DKMS module (e.g. if you use NVIDIA or AMD graphics) didn't get re-installed from your last kernel upgrade. Let us know if how you get on, but that should point you in the right direction. Also from your postcode, you'll probably find WolvesLUG more local if you need to reach out to someone who lives near by (we're happy to have you here too :P) p.s. With you mentioning pubkey errors... that's likely (at a guess) something you're seeing with APT (or something that calls it, like whichever program you install software using) and probably just means you need to update your repo's... but it's probably not related to this issue. Steven Maddox Lantizia On 01/10/2025 10:48, Geoff Whiles via StaffsLUG General wrote: