Comment 10 for bug 518034

Getting the same behaviour.

Just did a pristine install of Ubuntu 9.10 and then immediately did a dist-upgrade to Ubuntu Lucid Alpha.
System hangs on first boot into the newly installation; symptoms as described by the original report.

Using the failsafe boot entry, I was able to get a login and from there startx got me to gnome desktop.
This Computer is equipped with a nvidia card and dual head display; the upgrade had picked the nouveau
driver automatically