I tried a Control-C which had no effect at all but hitting Escape suddenly brought things back from the dead and I was able to complete the safe-upgrade. The system has been rebooted once and came right up so it is working once again.
Again thanks for the help. Martin McCormick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201205050317.q453hhjk014...@x.it.okstate.edu