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Re: [LUG] Reinstalling Ubuntu

 

On 13/11/16 21:43, Richard Brown wrote:
> Hi
> 
> To be honest I would love to try to save it but.... I don't have
> anything like ssh running, not sure that I can boot into any other
> kernels. The only one showing has the same reaction and the system
> should be just about backed up. Might lose one or two things but nothing
> important.

Well, all your data is still there so no need to worry: first, boot
holding down LEFT shift and you'll see the grub boot menu. There you'll
see your current kernel and several old ones under the advanced options
list. Try booting an older one first and then an older one in rescue
mode and see if that gets you anywhere. In rescue mode you'll at least
get kernel boot messages.

Might also be worth booting your live USB stick and sniffing around for
a minute just to check all your data is still there, and to copy off
anything you really want to save before you go any further.

Ubuntu really isn't what is used to be these days and it's unfortunately
easy to bork it quite badly but you're most likely suffering from some
missing packages or some badly default configured software after the
failed Kubuntu experiment - that would have pulled in a lot of changes
and removed a lot of stuff that normal Ubuntu needed. What was Ubuntu
running before for a WM? Unity/Gnome/Mate/?

Cheers

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