I think I may have missed a warning somewhere but I did an update on an XFCE machine this morning and synaptic notified me about major removals & updates but since it's a test machine I gave it a go.
Now it boots asking me if I want a 3D desktop or not (I said no) and then it falls back to the login screen only to repeat the exercise over again.
Is there a graceful way to recover?
Thanks