[mdlug] Problems with upgrade?

[Jeff Hanson]

On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 11:10 AM, Robert Jim Fulner <fulner at gmail.com> wrote:
> Befor going to bed last night I set my pc to do an upgrade from
> xubuntu 8.07 lts to 8.10. When I woke up this morning my screen was
> dead. I can't wake it up, and turning off and on the monitor did
> nothing. Would it be safe in this situation to hard boot the system or
> is there a better alternative.

Best solution is to SSH in  from an other system and see what is
happening.  Next option is:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_SysRq_key