13th March 2017, 19:49
Starbuck - good to know, thank you. So I could just shut the Update Manager off and ignore it. (Once I get things figured out!)
leszek - Er. I'm not sure. I don't think I've updated the kernel, as I haven't chosen anything in Update Manager higher than a 3. Currently, I have:
KDE Plasma Version: 5.8.4
KDE Apps Version: 16.12.0
Frameworks Version: 5.29.0
Qt Version: 5.7.0
Kernel Version: 5.5.0-57-generic
As for an older kernel to boot from, I'm not sure. I'll go see if I can find out. Right now, it just flashes between a black screen and a blue loading screen, before settling on the login page, and I don't see anywhere that a kernel option exists (if I want to load to my mac, I hold down the option key).
If it is some of the later packages I upgraded, which seems the most likely, as it all started happening together and recently - I found the History of Updates list, which shows me which ones I installed recently - is there a way to just revert those back to the older versions I used to have? Or am I stuck with what I've got in that regard? I see that I can remove them entirely from Synaptic, but I don't see an obvious way to roll-back to a previous version.
Or I suppose I could cross my fingers, wait for the newest upgrade to 17.03 and hope that fixes everything that broke.
If not, I still have the original Maui 1 on a USB, though that would be a bit of a pain. At least, I know it works. 
leszek - Er. I'm not sure. I don't think I've updated the kernel, as I haven't chosen anything in Update Manager higher than a 3. Currently, I have:
KDE Plasma Version: 5.8.4
KDE Apps Version: 16.12.0
Frameworks Version: 5.29.0
Qt Version: 5.7.0
Kernel Version: 5.5.0-57-generic
As for an older kernel to boot from, I'm not sure. I'll go see if I can find out. Right now, it just flashes between a black screen and a blue loading screen, before settling on the login page, and I don't see anywhere that a kernel option exists (if I want to load to my mac, I hold down the option key).
If it is some of the later packages I upgraded, which seems the most likely, as it all started happening together and recently - I found the History of Updates list, which shows me which ones I installed recently - is there a way to just revert those back to the older versions I used to have? Or am I stuck with what I've got in that regard? I see that I can remove them entirely from Synaptic, but I don't see an obvious way to roll-back to a previous version.
Or I suppose I could cross my fingers, wait for the newest upgrade to 17.03 and hope that fixes everything that broke.
If not, I still have the original Maui 1 on a USB, though that would be a bit of a pain. At least, I know it works.