It is really not within my power to get a shell or gui without acpi=off.
Following your suggestion, I provoked such a failed boot by temporarily
removing acpi=off from the boot parameters. Afterwards I ran "journalctl -b -1"
to get the logs of that failed attempt. For your reference, I attached
Thanks for your suggestions.
Unfortunately, the system won't boot without acpi=off. This is why I appended
it to the kernel-parameters in the first place.
So I can't boot up without it and then run some command. I could run the
command with the system booted up with acpi off though. Would you
Public bug reported:
following the instructions here:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingTouchpadDetection
laptop model directly from sticker on the computer:
P6685-MD61086 MSN30024751
manufacturer of the touchpad:
not sure, /proc/bus/input/devices of my prior system listed the touchpad as:
I:
