13.1 is decaying rapidly!! help please...

Hi,

I've had 13.1 running for several months with out much problem. Recently I noticed that I had 130+ updates pending, so I started the update. The updates never complete because it hangs on "remove ucode-amd" . I have tried it in the Updater and in Yast2 and I have had to close the system down in order to exit either of these.

Then I noticed that at boot time Grub no longer offers my WinXP boot option.

I tried to run Yast2 and edit the Bootloader and it hangs.

I then tried to run Gparted from within 13.1 and it just hangs while scanning all devices.

And now I have no network access, either locally or the internet.

Please let me know what further info you need to provide assistance, and how to get it.

Thanks,

Chris