Take the tour ×  I installed a first batch of updates after
doing a fresh install of Ubuntu 12.10 tonight on my laptop. The
fresh install worked great. But after the updates when it
offered me to restart it will not boot now. I tried recovery
mode items like start in safe graphics mode or update grub but
none of this solves the problem. I know that it updated the
kernel to 3.5....0.26 from .17 (only two kernels I see in boot
screen). I tried loading older kernel and it's also hanging,
though.  Please help. I don't even know how to approach the
problem. Today is the first day I decided to go on Linux full-
time, and now this.  I'm thumbing through search links: I ran
dpkg --configure -a and it didn't work. So doesn't seem like it
was an interrupt in the update.  I guess nobody's gonna help me
:(  share|improve this question Ok, people, I found a solution
to this. IF you are updating a LOT of updates (in my case it was
something like 320) then you must wait for a long time after you
restart the computer. It look