[TriLUG] Ubuntu Won't Boot (after update)

[Mauricio Tavares via TriLUG]

On Thu, Jun 6, 2019 at 4:00 PM Matthew Glassman via TriLUG
<trilug at trilug.org> wrote:
>
> Hello everyone,
>
> Running Ubuntu 18.04 (Graphical) in a VirtualBox and was working fine.  Got
> the update notification and told it to go ahead and install updates.
> Updates installed and told it to go ahead an reboot the VM instance.   Done
> this plenty of times with no problems.   This time the VM reboots and it
> starts loading Ubuntu with the splash screen (Ubuntu title with the little
> dots under it).  Next thing I know that disappears and then the Ubuntu logo
> shows up at the bottom of the screen and I can't do anything.
>
> I've tried booting to a different kernel.  FSCK didn't find anything
> wrong.  Tried to boot in to recovery mode and uninstall recent packages,
> but none of the apt commands work.  Doesn't seem to be able to go out and
> fetch or update anything.  Can't ping or nslookup, but ifconfig (from root
> prompt) shows the network getting an IP and the DNS is the same as it has
> been.  Anyone run into this?
>
> One other item of note, prior to the Ubuntu Splash screen it says.
> Recovering Journal
> /dev/sda1 (the HDD) clean
> [15.577368] [drm:vmw_host_log] [vmwgfx]] *ERROR* Failed to send log
>
> Thanks,
> Matthew

      I do not remember in ubuntu but in centos during the "tron
bikes" step of the boot process you can press ESC and it will show the
boot messages. You can try that.

      Option 2 is during the grub menu screen to edit the boot
options. Per https://askubuntu.com/questions/248/how-can-i-show-or-hide-boot-messages-when-ubuntu-starts
something like "loglevel=4" or just remove "quiet splash" or any other
splashing entries should help you see any error message.


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