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I wanted to try Unity8 on Ubuntu 15.10 and after some searching I found you have to install the ubuntu-touch package, I did and after a log out and switching to Unity Touch on the greeter the computer rebooted and it won't start because it can't find the data partition.

It listed the following:

Couldn't find data partition. Spawning adbd ...
/scripts/panic/adbd: line 22: can't create /sys/class/android_usb/android0/idVendor: nonexistent directory
/scripts/panic/adbd: line 23: can't create /sys/class/android_usb/android0/idProduct: nonexistent directory
/scripts/panic/adbd: line 24: can't create /sys/class/android_usb/android0/functions: nonexistent directory
/scripts/panic/adbd: line 25: can't create /sys/class/android_usb/android0/enable: nonexistent directory
Segmentation fault

BusyBox v1.22.1 (Ubuntu 1:1.22.0-15ubuntu1) built-in shell (ash)

and it gave me a (initramfs) prompt

Now I am not a super technical user but I can figure most things out, on this one I am stumped.

I am thinking about trying to boot from a live USB and see if I can recover the data (the system in on a SSD and all my user data on a HDD) and worst case scenario just reset everything and install ubuntu from scratch, however if there is something I can try first and be able to recover my system it would be preferable.

Thanks!

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It's complaining because it has nowhere to create Android files (the directory needs to be made). Try rebooting, if that doesn't work, report back to me.

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  • Did reboot, tried recovery mode and I get the same.
    – Pepe Paez
    Oct 22, 2015 at 23:21
  • Some additional details, the computer when turned on goes immediately to the GNU GRUB menu, for some reason I cannot start anything from the USB, need to try with another drive to check if that's the problem. Is there some way to use grub to fix the problem?
    – Pepe Paez
    Oct 23, 2015 at 0:39

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