Hello Philippe, I did as you asked. It seems to have resulted in a new kernel being installed and running: dpkg.log: 2010-05-18 08:37:49 startup archives install 2010-05-18 08:37:54 install linux-image-2.6.34-999-generic 2.6.34-999.201005172238 2010-05-18 08:37:54 status half-installed linux-image-2.6.34-999-generic 2.6.34-999.201005172238 2010-05-18 08:38:28 status unpacked linux-image-2.6.34-999-generic 2.6.34-999.201005172238 2010-05-18 08:38:28 status unpacked linux-image-2.6.34-999-generic 2.6.34-999.201005172238 2010-05-18 08:38:28 configure linux-image-2.6.34-999-generic 2.6.34-999.201005172238 2.6.34-999.201005172238 2010-05-18 08:38:28 status unpacked linux-image-2.6.34-999-generic 2.6.34-999.201005172238 2010-05-18 08:38:28 status half-configured linux-image-2.6.34-999-generic 2.6.34-999.201005172238 2010-05-18 08:38:55 status installed linux-image-2.6.34-999-generic 2.6.34-999.201005172238 uname in Console: willem@PC10-135:~$ uname -r 2.6.34-999-generic The laptop will now only work in safe mode. The trick with pressing shift did not result in me seeing any grub-menu, so I was not given the possibility to chose the newly installed kernel. Still it seems that I am running it nonetheless. The kernel log still shows the messages though they are not as numerous as before: May 18 08:53:49 PC10-135 kernel: [ 798.431245] CIFS VFS: ignoring corrupt resume name May 18 08:53:53 PC10-135 kernel: [ 801.744130] CIFS VFS: ignoring corrupt resume name May 18 08:55:24 PC10-135 kernel: [ 892.502408] CIFS VFS: ignoring corrupt resume name Does this help at all? Willem Ps. I will now deinstall the 2.6.34-999-kernel. 2010/5/18 Philippe Gauthier