Questions tagged [recovery-mode]
Questions about using and getting tasks done with the command line recovery mode.
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How to enter GRUB instead of manufacturer UEFI BIOS Utility?
I have ubuntu installed on an ASUS motherboard desktop. No dual booting. I want to boot into recovery mode.
Pressing 'esc' during boot takes me to the manufacturer BIOS:
picture of bios utility screen
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Ubuntu root partition is full, system won't boot, and "sudo apt-get clean" isn't working
I set up an Ubuntu rig to host Plex and act as a file server on my local network. I'm new to Ubuntu, so I followed directions and things seemed to be running fine--no problems with boot up or memory.
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Upgrade to 20.04 broke from 18.04
Although some diag tool (boot-repair: report here) run from 22.04 live USB (probably EFI) states the system is 20.04 and maybe missing an EFS partition, it never had (upgrade was run from 18.04 just ...
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Forgot username and password to Ubuntu
I have an M1 Macbook and used UTM to create an Ubuntu VM. I have now forgotten my username and password for the VM and do not see a recovery boot option in the GNU GRUB menu:
How can I recover or ...
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No Display Signal whatsoever after switching graphics driver
Ubuntu 22.04 Primary
Windows 10 Dual Boot
AMD Ryzen 7 3700X
ASRock B550M-C
RTX 3070
I recently tried to get my RTX 3070 working on the linux half of my dual boot system. I'm a complete noob at this ...
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Black Screen after installing NVIDIA drivers on ubuntu 22.04
I have a dual boot system with an NVIDIA RTX 3070. I've had no problems in the past working on ubuntu and using windows for gaming. I tried to install Nvidia Drivers on ubuntu to get my GPU working on ...
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Installation of Ubuntu 20.04 hung up and had to power off. After powering off, cannot boot into Linux on dual boot PC
For a little while now (6 years) my Lenovo z70 laptop was dual booted with having Windows 10 on one partition and Linux Ubuntu 16.04 on another partion.
Unfortunately, I had to upgrade to 18.04 since ...
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Ubuntu boot stops after “Loading Initial ramdisk” - can’t start in recovery mode or using bootable USB [closed]
I have Ubuntu installed on Intel NUC 10 since mid 2020. It was working fine up until this week. The system doesn’t boot past “Loading initial ramdisk…” - automatically shuts down right after that ...
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Give root password for maintenance (or press Control-D to continue):
I just upgraded Ubuntu today and when it's restarted it's showing subject message. The main problem is I forgot my root password. Now it's repeatedly saying: Give root password for maintenance (or ...
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Ubuntu 20.04 stuck in emergency mode with 90% of commands not working
I'm in a bit of a situation here and quite a Ubuntu/linux newbie, plus I didn't find any working solution for us in other posts facing similar problem, hence every help is more than welcome.
In ...
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How to undo ubuntu upgrade
My PC crash during ubuntu upgrade. After rebooting I get the following error message:
kfd kfd amdgpu : Topaz not supported in kfd.
I tried all command lines from recovery mode unfortunately it didn't ...
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/dev/nvme0n1p5, clean x/x, x/x blocks - recovery mode
I enter recovery mode and it stops me at "Begin: Running /scripts/init-bottom". Then it throws up and formations like this :
https://files.fm/f/4b22hfk8u - this appeared before next screen, ...
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Boot to USB from Shell?
I can't boot into the OS (I'm getting Oh no! Something went wrong.). I can boot into grub (and edit grub to open shell), or boot into recovery and open shell from there. Normally, I would just boot to ...
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Network controller unclaimed only in Recovery
An update to the Nvidia drivers causes my Ubuntu 22.04.1 (Kernel 5.15.0-53) to not boot beyond a black screen with a blinking cursor, and most suggestions to resuscitate this involve purging and ...
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Ubuntu 22.04 boots to a black screen with login
When I try to boot my machine, this is the output:
Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS <my_name>-pc tty1
<my_name>-pc login:
The whole screen is black. If I login in then it's like I'm in a huge terminal ...
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Emergency mode erased all my files
Sometimes it happens that after an update my Ubuntu 20.04 LTS reboots in emergency mode. First time I ran `fsck /dev/sda1` and solved the problem with no bad consequences. But second time it happened, ...
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Ubuntu froze, rebooted and stuck on black screen since
Ubuntu froze, rebooted and stuck on black screen since, even recovery mode doesn’t get past the black screen. No errors, I didn’t do any updates or anything that affects the system when it happened.
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Ubuntu screen turns black after "recovering journal" and purple screen in recovery blacks out
One day, I was powering off my PC to check the thermal paste because it was getting hot. I turned it back on, and now the screen momentarily says "recovering journal" then turns black.
I ...
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Can't edit .profile from recovery
I'm trying to use cat from recovery menu. What happens it will open, but it stays in the terminal prompt. It will load the file, but I can't edit it. How can I get it to be editable? I need to remove ...
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Ubuntu cannot boot problems
I use Ubuntu 18.04 and it worked well, but when I turned on my computer this morning, the following problem occured.
Problem screenshot
I am fairly new to Linux and have no idea what this could mean ...
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Ubuntu 20.04 freezes after some time of use while Windows blue screens randomly and restarts every time
I have a dual booted system with Windows and Ubuntu.
I try to turn on my laptop and boot in windows and it just blue screens after a couple of minutes of use (no specific application, sometimes a game,...
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Ubuntu 22.04 hanging in recovery mode
I am trying to boot into recovery mode.
On boot type the right shift key loads the GRUB menu V. 2.06
Selecting Advanced options for Ubuntu
Selecting Ubuntu, with Linux 5.16.0-47-generic (recovery mode)...
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Upgrade 20.04 LTS Desktop to 22.04 LTS Desktop - How to prevent a crash or to recover your previous kernel and OS?
I tried to do release upgrade from 20.04 LTS Desktop to 22.04 LTS Desktop. During the installation progress everything seemed fine till the end. After restart the Grub boot loader seemed normally, but ...
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Machine won't boot after upgrade from 18.04.6 to 20.04
I just tried to upgrade from Lubuntu 18.04.6 to 20.04 on a Station M2 mini PC. It's like a fancier Raspberry Pi.
The upgrade completed and the computer was functional. Upon reboot, I can't get the ...
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Failed to start process automatic reporting is enabled
I've recently installed Ubuntu 22.04 on my laptop, and all was running smoothly until this morning, when I tried to log in and got an error: Oh no! Something has gone wrong. A problem has occurred ...
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Ubuntu 20.04 does not boot: /dev/sda5 clean, 525049/30343168 files, 13164811/121342720 blocks
I have Ubuntu 20.04 and Windows 10 on my computer and it uses NVIDIA drivers. When I enter Ububtu this message appears:
/dev/sda5 clean, 525049/30343168 files, 13164811/121342720 blocks
For fixing ...
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is it possible to mount a mutlipass image outside of the multipass/qemu tool?
a little background, I'd been using multipass via macos on a m1 chip, had a nice little vm that I used to store some thing. everything seemed fine, did an upgrade on multipass and now my VM with ...
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Wifi Controller Not working and showing from Panel on Ubuntu 22.04 Lts [duplicate]
After installing the NVIDIA driver on my laptop (Dell Vostro 15 3500 i7 11 gen, Nvidia 2g Mx330 ). created a multi-problem Like Black-Screen After This I use recovery mode on ubuntu
I return to using ...
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I can no longer boot into Ubuntu [duplicate]
I'm really new to Ubuntu and got my PC about 2 months ago. While I was crypto mining I tried to figure out how to overclock using GreenwithEnvy but it kept giving me the error: "Error Applying ...
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Recover ubuntu installation - won't boot after crash
I was in Chrome with (I think) too many tabs and windows open. Computer stopped responding to mouse or keyboard. I did a hard reboot, power off and on, as I have before, but instead of coming back up ...
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I've just go the "Oh no! Something has gone wrong." screen
I broke my system by editing one of the gnome applications found in the applications directory, it was something to do with libreoffice writer I think. I changed the path of the icon to an image I ...
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"Invalid signature"...."you need to load kernal first" error....when trying to access Advanced options in Recovery Mode Ubuntu 18.04
This is as far as I get when trying to get into the Recovery Mode to rest my password since Ubuntu 18.04 does not recognize the correct password. At the top of the screen it says :
GNU GRUB Ver 2.04
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Recovered /usr/bin folder - Problem with permissions
I accidentally deleted my /usr/bin/ folder on my Raspberry Pi with Ubuntu server. Luckily I had a backup. Its a little bit old, but not much changed since then. I thought I could just copy the old bin ...
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Stalls Booting Into Recovery Mode
So I just received a second hand nvidia system running Ubuntu. No clue about logins so I tried to boot into recovery mode but every time I select the option to it gets stuck booting on one line ...
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I am stuck in XFCE with no option to change to GNOME [duplicate]
I am usually using Ubuntu 20.04 with Gnome DE. Since my laptop is slow, I wanted so see how it will work with XFCE. In the login screen, I switched to XFCE and it was a terrible experience with very ...
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Locked out of my Xubuntu laptop - Dell Latitude e6530
This has never happened to me before. I changed my password, set for No Password on login, and, noticing that I wasn't an administrator, I made myself one, though I'm the only user and the only one ...
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Ubuntu 20.04 LTS: Keyboard and mouse do not work in BOTH sign-in screen as well as recovery for all kernel versions newer than 5.11.0-43-generic
IMPORTANT: Also, the recovery for 5.11.0-43-generic (My only working kernel currently) has the same issue. The keyboard does not function in recovery on any kernel I have installed. However, 5.11.0-43-...
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Returning to ubuntu from xubuntu
When I choose ubuntu option from the booting list as usual, it loads the xubuntu logo and then stucks in:
/dev/nvme0n1p7: recovering journal
/dev/nvme0n1p7: clean, X/Y files, Q/Z blocks.
*X, Y, Z and ...
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Ubuntu 20.04 is not loading after cancelling "resetter" in progress
I was using resetter to reset my PC. It showed some error while resetting so I had to cancel it. I cancelled it in the middle of the operation. It deleted some important folders. I could not open the ...
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How to exit from recovery mode in Ubuntu 18.04, system is stuck after trying to enable networking option?
After trying to 'enable networking" option in recovery mode in Ubuntu 18.04, the system is stuck. Not able to reboot.
How much time it will take for recovery?
System is stuck in the following ...
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Grub automatically boots into Recovery mode
Hardware Information:
OS: Ubuntu 21.10 impish
Kernel: x86_64 Linux 5.13.0-21-generic
Uptime: 25m
Packages: 2223
Shell: bash 5.1.8
Resolution: 2560x1600
DE: Gnome
WM: Mutter
WM Theme: Orchis
GTK Theme:...
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How to fix ubuntu when recovery mode won't work and can't access windows?
Basically, I can't run ubuntu or recovery mode either
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This shows up when I try to boot Ubuntu or recovery mode
. I don't think it's a hardware problem, I used to run ubuntu every day on the very ...
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/lib/recovery-mode/recovery-menu line 80 /etc/default/rcs: no such file
I am new to ubuntu/linux.
I have checked similar questions but it doesn't answer my question. In grub when i select network(wired) or fsck. i get the error message. /lib/recovery-mode/recovery-menu ...
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Password login issue, can’t open grub
So I changed my password using the command line using using the passwd command. I restarted and cannot login using the new password or any of my old passwords so I am unable to use my computer. I have ...
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ubuntu login failure after uninstalling protonvpn
Hi: After trying for hours to login to protonvpn using its app on ubuntu 20.04 (and not having internet access during that time) I decided to uninstall the protonvpn app, and start over. Big mistake.
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Upgrade from 21.04 to 21.10 interrupted and cannot get to recovery mode
When I choose the recovery mode option in grub, I get a blinking screen with the below message:
/lib/recovery-mode/recovery-menu: line 120: /lib/recovery-mode/options/whiptail:: No such file or ...
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Xubuntu runs well in recovery mode but freezes in normal mode
I have been using Xubuntu 20.04 LTS as a primary OS. From time to time it gets randomly freezes and restarts. Freezing might be any time regardless of opening some specific program. While freezing ...
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Can't login after removing python3 and reinstalling
I removed python3 without knowing it might cause problems. Then I reinstalled python3, ubuntu-desktop and gnome in recovery mode and also did package repair. Now i can see the login page but when i ...
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Failed recovery mode in Ubuntu 20.04
I ran out of free space in my ubuntu, I could not load ubuntu normally as before, so I was working through recovery mode but I did not understand what happened that recovery mode also failed so when I ...
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Trouble removing NVIDIA drivers
I've recently installed graphic drivers for an nvidia geforce RTX 2070. After that, Ubuntu (version 21.04) wouldn't boot anymore. (Lots of people seem to have this issue, see e.g. [1], [2], [3].) I've ...
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