Just started using Ubuntu again, I had a major crash
My system hung up while installing Virtualbox, I had to do a hard reset. After the system came back up, it's stuck in some Terminal screen. Just a cursor at the corner, but I cannot enter any commands. I tried some recovery options, still stuck. Just wanted to know if there was some way out of it. I previously got stuck at 640x480 resolution But I edited my grub file to add the other resolutions back in. was working fine for a few days until it hung up during VBox install, I could not even open a Term to tell it to reboot. Now the system won't some up. Just need to know if there is some trick to get it to come back up. e;se I'll just reinstall, no problem really. Don't want to lose the files I got saved in Home. Reinstall to the system partition? Checked through the listed questions, didn't see anything similar that had any answers. Thank you.
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asked Feb 8 at 1:14
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My system hung up while installing Virtualbox, I had to do a hard reset. After the system came back up, it's stuck in some Terminal screen. Just a cursor at the corner, but I cannot enter any commands. I tried some recovery options, still stuck. Just wanted to know if there was some way out of it. I previously got stuck at 640x480 resolution But I edited my grub file to add the other resolutions back in. was working fine for a few days until it hung up during VBox install, I could not even open a Term to tell it to reboot. Now the system won't some up. Just need to know if there is some trick to get it to come back up. e;se I'll just reinstall, no problem really. Don't want to lose the files I got saved in Home. Reinstall to the system partition? Checked through the listed questions, didn't see anything similar that had any answers. Thank you.
boot
asked Feb 8 at 1:14
Jonny VeeJonny Vee
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If you can provide more details we may be able to help more. What release of Ubuntu? Stick in some 'terminal screen'? If you can provide detail about this we may be able to help more. Your forced-shutdown may have introduced fs (file-system) errors & you only need tofsck(file system check) which you can do from a 'live' (or install media). The commands needed vary on fs & release (which can influence fs used). Yes you can re-install, I'd suggest with 'something else' & select your existing partitions. It'll erase your system directories (not $HOME) keeping as much as possible.
– guiverc
Feb 8 at 1:56
I had a response all typed up but it was “too big“, and I don’t have time to deal with this right now, i’ll have to come back to this in a couple of days. It was the very latest version, not the version with the lifetime support.
– Jonny Vee
Feb 9 at 2:21
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My system hung up while installing Virtualbox, I had to do a hard reset. After the system came back up, it's stuck in some Terminal screen. Just a cursor at the corner, but I cannot enter any commands. I tried some recovery options, still stuck. Just wanted to know if there was some way out of it. I previously got stuck at 640x480 resolution But I edited my grub file to add the other resolutions back in. was working fine for a few days until it hung up during VBox install, I could not even open a Term to tell it to reboot. Now the system won't some up. Just need to know if there is some trick to get it to come back up. e;se I'll just reinstall, no problem really. Don't want to lose the files I got saved in Home. Reinstall to the system partition? Checked through the listed questions, didn't see anything similar that had any answers. Thank you.
boot
asked Feb 8 at 1:14
Jonny VeeJonny Vee
1
My system hung up while installing Virtualbox, I had to do a hard reset. After the system came back up, it's stuck in some Terminal screen. Just a cursor at the corner, but I cannot enter any commands. I tried some recovery options, still stuck. Just wanted to know if there was some way out of it. I previously got stuck at 640x480 resolution But I edited my grub file to add the other resolutions back in. was working fine for a few days until it hung up during VBox install, I could not even open a Term to tell it to reboot. Now the system won't some up. Just need to know if there is some trick to get it to come back up. e;se I'll just reinstall, no problem really. Don't want to lose the files I got saved in Home. Reinstall to the system partition? Checked through the listed questions, didn't see anything similar that had any answers. Thank you.
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asked Feb 8 at 1:14
Jonny VeeJonny Vee
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asked Feb 8 at 1:14
Jonny VeeJonny Vee
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asked Feb 8 at 1:14
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asked Feb 8 at 1:14
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If you can provide more details we may be able to help more. What release of Ubuntu? Stick in some 'terminal screen'? If you can provide detail about this we may be able to help more. Your forced-shutdown may have introduced fs (file-system) errors & you only need tofsck(file system check) which you can do from a 'live' (or install media). The commands needed vary on fs & release (which can influence fs used). Yes you can re-install, I'd suggest with 'something else' & select your existing partitions. It'll erase your system directories (not $HOME) keeping as much as possible.
– guiverc
Feb 8 at 1:56
I had a response all typed up but it was “too big“, and I don’t have time to deal with this right now, i’ll have to come back to this in a couple of days. It was the very latest version, not the version with the lifetime support.
– Jonny Vee
Feb 9 at 2:21
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If you can provide more details we may be able to help more. What release of Ubuntu? Stick in some 'terminal screen'? If you can provide detail about this we may be able to help more. Your forced-shutdown may have introduced fs (file-system) errors & you only need tofsck(file system check) which you can do from a 'live' (or install media). The commands needed vary on fs & release (which can influence fs used). Yes you can re-install, I'd suggest with 'something else' & select your existing partitions. It'll erase your system directories (not $HOME) keeping as much as possible.
– guiverc
Feb 8 at 1:56
I had a response all typed up but it was “too big“, and I don’t have time to deal with this right now, i’ll have to come back to this in a couple of days. It was the very latest version, not the version with the lifetime support.
– Jonny Vee
Feb 9 at 2:21
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If you can provide more details we may be able to help more. What release of Ubuntu? Stick in some 'terminal screen'? If you can provide detail about this we may be able to help more. Your forced-shutdown may have introduced fs (file-system) errors & you only need to
fsck (file system check) which you can do from a 'live' (or install media). The commands needed vary on fs & release (which can influence fs used). Yes you can re-install, I'd suggest with 'something else' & select your existing partitions. It'll erase your system directories (not $HOME) keeping as much as possible.– guiverc
Feb 8 at 1:56
If you can provide more details we may be able to help more. What release of Ubuntu? Stick in some 'terminal screen'? If you can provide detail about this we may be able to help more. Your forced-shutdown may have introduced fs (file-system) errors & you only need to
fsck (file system check) which you can do from a 'live' (or install media). The commands needed vary on fs & release (which can influence fs used). Yes you can re-install, I'd suggest with 'something else' & select your existing partitions. It'll erase your system directories (not $HOME) keeping as much as possible.– guiverc
Feb 8 at 1:56
I had a response all typed up but it was “too big“, and I don’t have time to deal with this right now, i’ll have to come back to this in a couple of days. It was the very latest version, not the version with the lifetime support.
– Jonny Vee
Feb 9 at 2:21
I had a response all typed up but it was “too big“, and I don’t have time to deal with this right now, i’ll have to come back to this in a couple of days. It was the very latest version, not the version with the lifetime support.
– Jonny Vee
Feb 9 at 2:21
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If you can provide more details we may be able to help more. What release of Ubuntu? Stick in some 'terminal screen'? If you can provide detail about this we may be able to help more. Your forced-shutdown may have introduced fs (file-system) errors & you only need to
fsck(file system check) which you can do from a 'live' (or install media). The commands needed vary on fs & release (which can influence fs used). Yes you can re-install, I'd suggest with 'something else' & select your existing partitions. It'll erase your system directories (not $HOME) keeping as much as possible.– guiverc
Feb 8 at 1:56
I had a response all typed up but it was “too big“, and I don’t have time to deal with this right now, i’ll have to come back to this in a couple of days. It was the very latest version, not the version with the lifetime support.
– Jonny Vee
Feb 9 at 2:21