I've been running 20.10 on my machine without problems for a while now. I was in the process of trying to encrypt the home folder of a second user with ecryptfs
following this article
https://www.linuxuprising.com/2018/04/how-to-encrypt-home-folder-in-ubuntu.html
But I ran into an error that some files were still in use by that user even though the user was logged out. I still had not rebooted the computer.
I then moved onto some to some other tasks, and in the process of doing something else, I rebooted the computer.
Maybe all the above is unrelated, but right now when I try to boot up I only get to a black screen.
I have the option to getting to the grub bootloader before the black screen, but I'm not sure what my problem even is, let alone how to solve it :(
UPDATE: I've been trying to boot into text only mode from the grub menu without success (as in it still just loads a black screen)
And an attempt at booting into Recovery mode hangs after "Loading initial ramdisk..."