Well, in order to be any help you're going to have to provide some more information.<br><br>What sort of mouse is it? (USB/PS2)? Wireless?<br>Does your keyboard work or is that also frozen?<br>If it is working try pressing the escape key then moving the mouse.<br>
If your keyboard is working and the escape trick doesn't work open up a new shell (ctrl + alt + f2) and see if dmesg or /var/log/messages sheds any light on the problem.<br><br>Thanks<br><br>Martin<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On 10 September 2010 12:21, JOHN COUZIN <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:john.c.at95@btinternet.com">john.c.at95@btinternet.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div><div style="font-family: verdana,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><div>Hi,</div>
<div> I'm looking for a bit of advice on a problem that has sprung up on one of my computers. It is one that has Ubuntu and Firefox, it was running fine and then an update window appeared which suggested that I could update to Ububtu 10.04. I clicked OK and the upgrade began. It seemed to be a long affair so I left it running and when I came back the screen had frozen. unable to do anything I re-booted but no matter what I do it seems to boot up and the desk top appears but the curser is frozen. I have a disc with Ubuntu 10.04 on it which I downloaded after my freeze up. I should add that I'm not a techno geek, I believe more in the science of footer, I just footer around with things and see what happens. In this case the results are nothing. John.</div>
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