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