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102 questions linked to/from How do I boot into a root shell?
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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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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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/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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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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Failed to login even to terminal somehow enter is pressed [duplicate]
I fail to even log into recovery terminal, after I roll back to 4.4.0-142-generic kernel (because of error in nvidia driver in 4.4.0-143-generic kernel) after grub update. I login and then somehow ...
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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 ...
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How can I boot into an Ubuntu command line without having to install Ubuntu?
If I just download Ubuntu Desktop and choose try Ubuntu without installing it will load into GNOME but the mouse is basically entirely unusable.
So what I would like to do is just try Ubuntu from ...
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ubuntu 14.04 OS not loading, /bin/sh problem
Lately I started learning SHELL SCRIPTING. I was practicing some commands. Unfortunately I did "mv test1.sh /bin/sh". In test1.sh which is my practicing script file which has "hello" text only. After ...
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Problem with tty terminal login [duplicate]
I stuck at boot up sequence access so I open tty terminal by pressing ctrl + alt + F2. I have to login, but I forgot my login, I know only my password.
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I have Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, the X interface is not working
I have Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, the X interface (the same as ubuntu-desktop) is not working. I managed to get to terminal mode and do apt-get upgrade and apt get dist-upgrade to see if this should solve the ...
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VM shows a black screen after login
I am trying to connect on my virtual machine, in order to work on Ubuntu 16.04.
It allows me to log into the vagrant machine, but a black screen appears afterward and nothing happens.
I didn’t do a ...
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Ubuntu 18.04 boot stuck at message “Started NVIDIA Persistence Daemon” after installing nVidia 390.74
I seem to have a similar problem to this guy.
Ubuntu 17.10 boot stuck at message "Started NVIDIA Persistence Daemon" after installing nVidia 384.90
Is the only option to remove the nvidia ...
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Recovering an encrypted home folder in Ubuntu
I was trying to upgrade to 18.04, and after reboot, I could not log in, even on a virtual terminal (Alt+Ctrl+F1). I don't know the exact reason, but my assumption is there was less space in home that ...
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Flashing screen in verbose bootup
I have a problem and I couldn't solve it by searching in google.
My problem started with a USB modem that worked fine till one day it suddenly did not work anymore. I tried to solve the problem by ...