Hi All and thanks for bearing with me. In an attempt to have additional kernels besides the two shown in Grub prior, I installed several and now I have many to choose from, 4.15.* to 4.18.*, and have tried several (yes I can now access Grub at boot).

I still cannot restart or shutdown (except hard). My WiFi is gone though after the first boot after adding the kernels I had it for a short session. I'm wired now.

I cannot get the correct screen resolution and xrander shows only:

$ xrandr
xrandr: Failed to get size of gamma for output default
Screen 0: minimum 1024 x 768, current 1024 x 768, maximum 1024 x 768
default connected primary 1024x768+0+0 0mm x 0mm
1024x768 76.00*

this resolution is too low but the only one available it seems. Looks like this:

I have tried a few things from support groups and to no avail.

That's the screenshot above, BTW, not duplicate typing.

Sound seems to have gone away too.

I imagine all of this is really the universe saying to do a clean install. I wish I knew what had happened but I probably never will.

So that's the update from hosed central. Wish I could make tonite's meeting but we're supporting Kitchen Angels.

Thanks folks

Brian