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Clean installed after a patchy dist upgrade with seemingly random
application crashes.

Landed at the failed boot, black screen and blinking login text. jumped
through various virtual terminals with ctrl+alt+F1-F6 until one stopped
flashing and permitted normal operation. Then I used FTP to download the
190.42 package as described by Lapdog on this page
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1305459&page=3 though I did add
in a step "sudo service gdm stop" before running the package in step 7

This permitted the machine to boot normally when I rebooted and touch
wood, has behaved since.

Installing the Nvidia driver like this means next Kernal update I may
have a problem again (I think?), is there a step I can take now to head
that off and have normal behaviour from the pesky machine?

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upgrade breaks graphic drivers and x, preventing login or startx
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/464591
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