[SOLVED] Zorin Black Screen After Update

Hey guys, I'm fairly New to this Forum, but I'm glad to be here!

I have been using Zorin for a while now on Several Machines, but my Newest build is being a bit Difficult. It's and AMD A8 APU platform, with a Gigabyte Mini-ITX board & 4Gb of RAM. The install goes along just fine. Afterward I apt-get update & apt-get upgrade, and that works good as well. However, after my next Reboot I am presented with Update Manager for more Updates, so I accept and procede. After Updating it asks me to reboot, and I do. After the Reboot, I am greeted with the Blue Zorin pulsating splash screen, like normal. But then, I get a solid black screen that never loads a GUI.

I setup SSH before I rebooted, and I am able to SSH into the machine.

I then type this to get the list of latest programs installed:
tail -n25 /var/log/apt/history.log

which spit's out:
Start-Date: 2014-06-20 11:11:57
Commandline: aptdaemon role='role-commit-packages' sender=':1.66'
Install: linux-image-3.11.0-23-generic:amd64 (3.11.0-23.40), python-apport:amd64 (2.12.5-0ubuntu2.2), linux-headers-3.11.0-23-generic:amd64 (3.11.0-23.40), p7zip:amd64 (9.20.1~dfsg.1-4), python-problem-report:amd64 (2.12.5-0ubuntu2.2, automatic), linux-headers-3.11.0-23:amd64 (3.11.0-23.40), python-lockfile:amd64 (0.8-2ubuntu1), linux-image-extra-3.11.0-23-generic:amd64 (3.11.0-23.40)
Upgrade: linux-headers-generic:amd64 (3.11.0.17.18, 3.11.0.23.24), ubuntu-release-upgrader-gtk:amd64 (0.205.4, 0.205.6), duplicity:amd64 (0.6.21-0ubuntu4.1, 0.6.21-0ubuntu4.2), winetricks:amd64 (0.0+20130707~precise1~ppa1, 0.0+20140302-0ubuntu2), python3-distupgrade:amd64 (0.205.4, 0.205.6), ubuntu-release-upgrader-core:amd64 (0.205.4, 0.205.6), linux-image-generic:amd64 (3.11.0.17.18, 3.11.0.23.24), linux-generic:amd64 (3.11.0.17.18, 3.11.0.23.24)
End-Date: 2014-06-20 11:15:23

Does anybody know if there is anything in here that may be the Culprit? I'm at my wit's end, and really don't want to have to format and start over once more!

Any help would be greatly Appreciated.

Thanks!

Basically your second update command is incorrect (it can be used on other systems but for Zorin I would avoid: 'sudo apt-get upgrade'!)

To update correctly:

Code:

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

Oh ok, I always thought that 'dist-upgrade' would grab the latest Distrobution available, eg. Ubuntu 13.10 'apt-get dist-upgrade' would in tern give Ubuntu 14.04.

Also, I have just managed to fix my Issue. I SSH'd back into the machine and reinstalled the Propriatery AMD A8 APU Display Drivers. After a 'sudo reboot' I'm back in business!

Thanks for the help!

Hi, you won't be the first to be confused with 'dist-upgrade' - Wolfman put me right on this one.

'dist-upgrade' is NOT looking for changes in the releases but looking at what applications need upgrading when the kernel gets updated!

Glad you got sorted - will mark as [SOLVED]