[SOLVED] - Major Maui Meltdown.

[kdemeoz]

Thanks, rocky. I ran the command, rebooted... but sadly it's still no good [same accursed symptoms]. I then tried removing the nomodeset & rebooted, but still once more no improvement [& as expected, this lost me the capability to get to TTY, so after i rebooted with recovery option fsck & logged back in to my desktop, I reinstated it].

Well, this boot bug seems to be my "new normal" now, but goodness knows why it has hit me out of the blue this week.