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Ubuntu fails to start the GUI after update
I use Ubuntu 22.04.4 LTS on Lenovo Legion. I recently upgraded a lot of packages (precisely, I used sudo apt update followed by sudo apt upgrade. Since then, I have been unable to use GUI. The startup ...
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Ubuntu 24.04 not booting on MacBook 4.1
I did an in place upgrade from Ubuntu 23.10 to 24.04 on my MacBook 4.1.
If I try to boot the default kernel 6.8.0.35, it won't boot I just get a black screen with a single hyphen in the top left. It ...
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Ubuntu 24.04 doesn't load GUI and login screen after Upgrade from 23.10
Yesterday I upgraded my Ubuntu from 23.10 to 24.04.
After successful upgrade, I suspended the system and went to sleep.
Today, I noticed that the system stuck at login page.
I rebooted the system and ...
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Help me troubleshoot slow boot since 24.04 upgrade
As stated in title, this is since 24.04 upgrade.
Before the upgrade, total boot from POST to desktop manager was around 15-20 seconds. It is now 70-80 seconds from POST.
Here are some outputs that I ...
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Kubuntu 24.04 Black Screen / Not Booting After Upgrade
I suspect this will be along similar lines to other folks, but in reading numerous posts I cannot find any that are really similar to my issues.
History...
Perfectly working Kubuntu system, no issues ...
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Messed up Ubuntu 24.04 upgrade and can't even reach grub menu; what can I do?
I followed a guide to upgrade from Ubuntu 22.04 to 24.04 since I actually needed some fixes they introduced in it. The guide was pretty straightforward. It just had me do sudo apt update and upgrade, ...
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Upgraded ubuntu, now bootup takes longer
On startup, the system starts looking for 3 drives/partitions which it will never find within it's 2 minutes and 30 seconds of waiting time. In the previous version, the boot time was super fast, but ...
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sata drive not updating to current kernel. nvme drive has 3 choices for kernel
my computer has a sata drive sda that it boots from but the system runs on a nvme drive which is selected by the grub on the sata.
the nvme is regularly updated and I watch the logwatch files for any ...
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Upgrade 20.04 to 22.04 - did not work
Eventually took the plunge and upgraded from 20.04 to 22.04, various reasons for holding off
because of development work.
So Started the upgrade off, all seemed to go well, but now I have
No Internet ...
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Upgrade Ubuntu: What are the consequences of the decision hold old grub config or not?
Upgrade of Ubuntu to the currently most recent version: What are the consequences of the decision hold old grub config or not?
I have decided to hold the old grub config.
As a result, the Windows ...
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Stuck at boot screen after release-upgrade from 22.04 LTS to Ubuntu 23.10
Till a week ago I had Ubuntu 22.04 LTS running. In order to upgrade to Ubuntu 23.10 I've allowed "upgrade to any new versions" and did do-release-upgrade.
After the upgrade the system does ...
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GParted always fails at resizing the EFI Boot Partition, how can I fix it?
I want to upgrade Ubuntu, but can't because my EFI boot partition is too small. I stupidly didn't think about unnecessary stuff cluttering it up and just went straight to trying to resize it using ...
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Issues Booting Up Ubuntu After Upgrading from 18.04 to 20.04
I am having issues after doing an upgrade from 18.04 to 20.04. During the upgrading process, there are some errors.
After rebooting the OS, the system starts up with errors:
[TIME] Timed out waiting ...
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Problem booting after upgrading from Ubuntu 22.04 to 23.04
Ubuntu proposed me to upgrade to 23.04 from Ubuntu 22.04. I accepted. The problem is that when the CPU restarted it got stuck, Ubuntu wasn't starting.
I made a live USB with Ubuntu 23.04, installed ...
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I've been trying to upgrade my ubuntu 20.04 to ubuntu 22.04 jelly for two days straight but whenever the laptop restarts it boots into Initramfs
This issue keeps popping up everytime I try to boot up my laptop after the upgrade
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White Screen after boot to 6.2.0-33 generic kernel
After updating to 6.2.0-33 kernel from 5.19, my computer boots to a login screen, but when I login the screen is completely white. The cursor is still visible. I have nvidia-driver-470 installed but I'...
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Ubuntu 22.04 upgrade crashes machine
I recently upgraded from 18.04 to 20.04. This upgrade worked, and the Software Updater advertised an upgrade to 22.04. I selected to start that upgrade.
Once that upgrade finished it produced an error ...
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VFS: cannot open root device "nvme1n1p4" or unknown-block
I was in the process of upgrading my Ubuntu 20.04 and installing ubuntu 22.04. Unfortunately, I made an error during pressing options through the upgrade process. I decided to restart the computer and ...
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initrd.img contains unnecessary modules after distro upgrade to 22.04
I have several Ubuntu systems running in VirtualBox VMs. They have a long history; started from 16.04 and have been upgraded successively for new LTS releases - but not necessarily all at the same ...
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"Gave up waiting for root file system device" after an upgrade to Ubuntu 22
This issue started when I upgraded to Ubuntu version 22. I've followed various methods and solutions given on this platform, including adjusting the BIOS settings, but the issue persists. Furthermore, ...
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I just upgraded Ubuntu from 20.04 to 22.04 but I can't boot Ubuntu
I just upgraded Ubuntu from 20.04 to 22.04 but I can't boot Ubuntu. It shows this error
ACPI Error: Needed [Integer/String/Buffer], found [Package]
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Ubuntu 22.04. does show black screen instead of login-screen after last update
I use Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS on a Lenovo IdeaPad Flex 5 16IAU7. It functions normal, until today. Now after i boot it it will not show the login-screen but a black screen (the encryption before will show ...
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etc/profile/ loading error Flatpack involved
In the process of upgrading from 16.04 to 20.04 (with 18.04 first), I tried to update everything, but did fail to update Flatpak packages. I'm not familiar with what flatpak does.
Now I have a start ...
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Upgrade 23.04 stops Dead
After upgrading to Ubuntu 23.04 (from 22.10), 23.04 will not load after the restart, it just stops dead after the bios. I tried everything just to get it loaded, but it just stops, and that is the ...
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How do I repair an ubuntu install with apparmor running forever at startup?
I tried to upgrade an Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS install to 23.04 last night. Upon reboot, the system will hang trying to start AppArmor. I found a few posts in the past about disabling app armor from ...
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Ubuntu 22.04 not booting, after "sudo apt purge gnome-shell-commen"
After upgrade from 18.04lts to 22.04lts, everything was ok except the screen saver did not worked. Surfed the net to sort this problem out. I accepted the advice go to the therminal write "sudo ...
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GUI doesn't show up after a failed upgrade
I got a prompt to update my Ubuntu version from 20.04 to 22.04. I chose to upgrade, but the upgrade failed for some unknown reasons (most probably it couldn't update my NVidia drivers). I was seeing ...
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Can't boot after upgrading to Kubuntu 23.04
I had a perfectly working Kubuntu installation. When I upgraded to 23.04, the upgrade was done without any error, but after a restart I wasn't able to load Kubuntu 23.04. My boot is stuck here:
I can ...
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Is it safe for me to upgrade to me to upgrade from Ubuntu Kinetic to Lunar (ZFS boot)
I installed Ubuntu 22.10/Kinetic with the ZFS filesystem option. I would like to upgrade to 23.04/Lunar but am concerned about whether the system will be bootable after upgrade due to lagging ZFS ...
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Anyone else having an issue with Atom after 23.04 upgrade?
I have an 'Acepc' tiny pc with a quad-core atom and an SSD - it had that cut-down Windows system. This one is unusual because it has a bay for a laptop disk of which I have many.
Grub comes up fine. ...
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I just upgrade to Lunar Lobster and I have been encountering kernel errors?
Errors were encoun
tered while processing:
linux-headers-6.2.12-060212-generic
linux-headers-6.2.0-20-generic
linux-headers-generic
linux-generic
linux-image-6.2.0-20-generic
linux-image-unsigned-6.2....
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Screen blank after upgrading to 22.04, no bios information
I have recently upgrade from Lubuntu 20.04. to 22.04. The problem is that now when I start the PC, I get blank screen. The system was working well, and then I had a kernel update. I would do the ...
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Ubuntu server fails to boot after do-release-upgrade from eoan to focal
I updated a Ubuntu server (HP ProLiant DL325 Gen10) that was still running eoan using do-release-upgrade. The updates seemed to have been installed without any errors. After the update, I tried to ...
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initramfs after upgrade Linux kernel ubuntu 20.04
After upgrading to Linux 5.15.0-60-generic from Linux 5.15.0-58-0 generic, It is not booting. It keeps hanging at initramfs. I tried the following
exit turns nothing
blkid turns nothing
dmsetup ls ...
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Ubuntu 22.10 booting issue
Yesterday, I upgraded my Ubuntu to 22.10. However, after installing Ubuntu and restarting the following message is shown:
error: shim_lock protocol not found.
error: you need to load the kernel first.
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18.04 -> 22.04 upgrade
I did an upgrade of 18.04LTS -> 22.04LTS using the software updater. After rebooting the system does not boot proper. Below the output (manual re-entered from the other machine, so maybe a type)
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Black screen at normal boot; login loop at terminal boot - after upgrading 20.04 to 22.04:
After upgrading Ubuntu 20.04 LTS to 22.04 LTS, my workstation (which has a Nvidia RTX 3080 12gb installed) ceased being able to boot. Regular boot attempts results in the well known black screen with ...
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How do I repair a botched upgrade attempt from Kubuntu 20.04 to Kubuntu 22.04?
EDIT 1: While kubuntu 22.04 dropped in April of 2022, many of us didn't have access to it via apt upgrade until only very recently. While even more recent versions have since dropped, it's the 22.04 ...
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Kubuntu 22.04.1 Live USB won't boot on desktop machine
TL;DR Known good USB stick won't boot, ends with stdin: Not a typewriter literally about a hundred times.
Hardware: Gigabyte 970A-DS3P MB, AMD Fx8350 (8 cores, 8 threads, 4.1 GHz max), 32 GB DDR3-1600 ...
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PC does not start after 'autoremove' and 'do-release-upgrade'
I made an attempt to upgrade from 18.04 to 22.04 following the steps on [this site][1] https://blog.eldernode.com/upgrade-ubuntu-18-04-to-22-04/. At the step "do-release-upgrade" the system ...
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Homebuilt desktop system won't boot after failed updgrade Kubuntu 20.04.5 to 22.04.1
I asked here several months ago whether the Ubuntu upgrade process had been improved from "better off doing clean install" as it was when I came up from 14.04 to 16.04 (and from 16.04 to 20....
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Ubuntu upgrade to 22.04 with dual boot - Kernel Panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0)
I don't have enough reputation to answer any question, so I decided to create a new one to share a solution to my problem.
In my case, I have a dual boot with Windows 10 and Ubuntu. I did an automatic ...
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Your BIOS is broken; bad RMRR -- since I upgraded to Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS
I can still boot the machine and use it. Yet since the upgrade from version 20, only the US keyboard layout works reliably. Sometimes I can switch keyboard layouts, but most of the times I cannot.
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Headless sever wont boot after dist upgrade from 20.04lts -> 22.04lts
I was upgrading old production server from 16.04Lts via ssh (only way I have access)
new piece of software we use required me to update to a newer dist
Upgrade went fine from 16.04lts to 18.04lts
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Upgraded Linux Kernel 5.15.0.52-lowlatency to 5.15.0.53, it would not boot?
I upgraded the kernel to 5.15.0-53 and it froze in the middle of the reboot. I sudo rebooted onto the previous kernel 5.15.0-52-lowlatency. I was attempting to remove the upgraded 5.15.0-53 via "...
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Initramfs unpacking failed: invalid magic at start of compressed archive -> Kernel panic
I recently updated my ASUS X515M laptop from Ubuntu 20.04 to 22.04, and it made my magic invalid. I work hard on my magic. Why did Ubuntu invalidate it? :(
Picture of the output after trying to boot
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My computer ultimately keeps loading to a pulsing black screen
I have an old computer that was just being used for wordprocessing and it was running 16 (probably ordinary ubunutu and LTS.) I followed some advice suggesting I might be able to fix something with an ...
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Ubuntu booting to grub after 22.04.1 LTS upgrade to 22.10
Today I updated from Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS to Ubuntu 22.10 using sudo update-manager -d (updated up to date).
Now when I try to boot from the drive I get this message:
GNU GRUB version 2.02
Minimal BASH-...
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booting to emergency mode after 20.04.5 (focal) to 22.04 (jammy) upgrade
Back in 2020, I installed 20.04 using the openZFS on root option provided in the Ubuntu installer. Now (Oct 2022) I ran:
sudo do-release-upgrade
and it completed and rebooted but GRUB menu still ...
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OS Not Booting Up
For a while, my OS hasn't been able to install updates. I ran sudo apt autoremove and a partial upgrade when prompted by the installer. Seemed to go okay. I'm now upgraded to 22.04.
I reboot and the ...
