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After I upgrade Kubuntu from 17.10 to 18.04, and restarted it, all I'm seeing is my mouse cursor, which responds to my movements, and that's pretty much it. I tried to see if I can start up sddm, but that failed.

After running journalctl -xe, this is the entry when it tried to start up systemd-modules-load.service:

systemd-modules-load[1858]: Failed to find module 'ashmem_linux'
systemd-modules-load[1858]: Failed to find module 'binder_linux'
systemd[1]: systemd-modules-load.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
systemd[1]: systemd-modules-load.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'
systemd[1]: Failed to start Load Kernel Modules

I also checked /etc/modules, but they're empty.

I tried disabling Secure Boot from Lenovo's BIOS, but it won't let me (the option is disabled).

I tried running sudo dpkg --configure -a, but that didn't work, and neither did sudo apt install -f.

The solution I tried: https://askubuntu.com/a/779574/558318

I tried mokutil --disable-validation, but that didn't work at all, either.

dmesg | grep -i failed returns this:

[  0.261240] pci 0000:03:00:00.0: BAR 6: failed to assign [mem size 0x00080000 pref]
[  1.303500] rtc_cmos: probe of 00:01 failed with error -16
[  1.523312] ACPI Error: Method parse/execution in failed \_SB.PCI0.RP05.PEGP.DD02._BCL, AE_NOT_FOUND (20170831/psparse-550)
[  5.313157] platform regulatory.0: Direct firmware load for regulatory.db failed with error -2
[  5.313161] cfg80211: failed to load regulatory.db
[  6.663134] bluetooth hci0: Direct firmware load for brcm/BCM.hcd failed with error -2

This original problem got solved by purging anbox, but it seems that that wasn't the problem at all. See here

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  • Are you able to get to the GRUB menu, or the login screen? If you're able to get to the login screen, click on your username, then the gear icon, and tell me which environment is selected.
    – heynnema
    Apr 25, 2018 at 21:58
  • I'm only able to get to the GRUB menu. The only thing I'm seeing on my login is my mouse cursor on a black screen. @heynnema Apr 26, 2018 at 1:38
  • Are you able to get into Recovery Mode from the GRUB menu?
    – heynnema
    Apr 26, 2018 at 3:15
  • yup. However, I can't connect to my network unless I use a wired connection Apr 26, 2018 at 3:20

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Open a terminal Ctrl+Alt+T and run:

sudo apt-get purge anbox-*
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  • that solved the Load Kernel Modules problem, but that wasn't the problem after all :-( Apr 26, 2018 at 5:47
  • Agreed. Having the same issue. I have to login manually and initiate startx to execute X server Apr 27, 2018 at 5:28

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