I will try the FN key when I am back at my desk. In terms of a major reinstall, should I use LVM or not? What is the current thinking? My existing 2 drive system uses LVM, but I gave never used it.
Thanks! Mark On Tue, Aug 19, 2025, 10:13 AM Arun Khan <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Tue, Aug 19, 2025 at 7:16 AM Mark Phillips <[email protected]> > 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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