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102 questions linked to/from How do I boot into a root shell?
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Ubuntu 21.10 freezes at 'loading inital ramdisk...'
I am running ubuntu 21.10 on a dell XPS 15 laptop. It was working great until the other day when I would get a black screen at boot time.
I can start it in recovery mode, select 'resume' from the ...
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Laptop does not work anymore after attempting fix for non working USB port
I have tried to fix my non working USB port according to the first answer in USB ports have completely stopped working
I have Ubuntu 20.04
However after the reebot noting works anymore. When I start ...
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How to stop using built-in home directory encryption?
I have a new Ubuntu 10.04 installation with encrypted home directory (using the built-in encryption offered by Ubuntu installer).
What's the easiest way to stop using encryption? (I.e., to decrypt ...
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How do I boot to recovery mode in Ubuntu 20.04? [duplicate]
To solve another problem I am having, it has been suggested that I need to "reboot to secure (actually recovery) mode". I don't know exactly what this means.
I have been in the BIOS of my ...
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Upgrade from 18.04 to 20.04 causing many failures
I upgraded Ubuntu 18.04 to 20.04 and now everything is broken. apt doesn't work.keep getting dpkg errors when trying to use it. cant install anything. nautilus and terminal doesn't work. lots of icons ...
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SMBus/ BIOS error while booting Ubuntu in VirtualBox
I am trying to boot Ubuntu 13.04 in VirtualBox, but every time I boot, I get an error that says:
SMBus base address uninitialized - upgrade BIOS or use force_addr=0xaddr
This happens right after I ...
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Can’t log in/boot Ubuntu 20.10
I was updating my nvidia drivers from the ones that came with Ubuntu, then restarted and after it showed the Ubuntu logo it goes to a blank screen with a single blinking dash. I have read other ...
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ZSH removed, cannot relogin
So I have install zsh and I didnt like it.
so I did apt-get remove zsh
From that point I cannot relogin, i click my user.. and then it just go back to the login screen. I can only login with the ...
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Uninstalling python uninstalled everything that depended on it
I uninstalled Python with sudo apt remove python3 and it removed every package that depended on Python (I think).
Now I can't do anything on my system, including opening gnome-terminal. Is there a way ...
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/etc/sudoers is owned by uid 33, should be 0 [duplicate]
when I try to use sudo -I command, I get this error:
sudo: /etc/sudoers is owned by uid 33, should be 0
sudo: no valid sudoers sources found, quitting
sudo: unable to initialize policy plugin
so I ...
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Ubuntu won't start after updating nvidia drivers from X-swat PPA
I tried to update the nvidia drivers using:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-x-swat/x-updates
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install nvidia-current
After this, I rebooted my pc, launch Ubuntu, ...
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Boot process absolutely destroyed... (Ubuntu 20.04)
The problem: Unable to boot into Ubuntu.
Causes:
Compilation of a package, (NekoProjectII/W) which had errors and in turn made the system unbootable, the error code was sbin/init not found
Tried to ...
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Ubuntu hangs on startup at /dev/mapper/ubuntu--vg-root. How do I fix it?
I have Ubuntu 20.04 (recently upgraded from 19.10) running on my ThinkPad T420 and since a couple of days I have the issue that Ubuntu stops startup at a screen that just shows
/dev/mapper/ubuntu--vg-...
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install ubuntu 18.04 in dell inspiron 3480
I recently buy a dell inspiron 3480, in which ubuntu 18.04 lts was installed by default. Then I installed windows 10 “sucesfully”. But after a while, I had an issue with 100% disck usage by windows ...
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Can't boot freshly installed Ubuntu 18.04
I recently downloaded Ubuntu 18.04 from the official Ubuntu website. I used Etcher to convert my flash drive into a bootable Ubuntu live USB. I installed Ubuntu 18.04 on my SSD, and later when the ...