Sorry if posting in the wrong spot. Received some updates Wed and now I cannot get into my system. Even an older package does not work as well as a recovery one which goes on forever. Typing in help brings up a long line of cryptic to mestuff that I cannot copy to post. Using LLOS 4.8??? I have an old backup, but not sure how to get to it and it would be way to old anyway. I will run Gparted and find out the drive. I have a system and a user partition. If I need to reinstall, will my user partition remain usable? This happened once before from an update, but I was able to use an older package , but not this time. thanks for any help