On Tue, Aug 19, 2025 at 7:16 AM Mark Phillips <m...@phillipsmarketing.biz> wrote:
> Arun, > > I was poking around my OS drive using my Live USB stick and discovered I > have a lot of half installed packages after running "*grep "install" > /media/ubuntu/e64e6da3-6922-4ae6-9b8b-b1c9d53fe13e/var/log/dpkg.log*". > All from 8/10/25 ~ 8 AM, which is probably the last update/upgrade I did. I > suppose that is the reason why the system will not boot. > > Yup, that explains the errors > I cannot get to the CLI using Ctrl+Alt+ and any F key. Is there > another way? > Hmm, that's really weird. Does the keyboard have a Fn key? If so, try CNTL+ALT+Fn+ <F1, ...> > > If not, then I will just order some new drives, take out the old ones, > install Ubuntu 24.04 to upgrade the OS, and then rsync all my data from the > old data drive to the new one. The old drives are SSDs from 2023 and my > data drive is almost full, so time for both a hardware and software upgrade. > It's up to you. As someone has suggested, try the Safe mode in the Grub menu. -- Arun Khan
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