Need help fixing a broken install (Kubuntu)
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Sorry for the second post on here today but I really need to get my system back up and running, bear with me please.
Casual non technical user here, long story short: my distro shat itself during an upgrade, and the whole day I've been fiddling around with it to try and get it fixed. Right now I'm in the grub/ubuntu recovery thingy, but networking isn't working for some reason, no idea why but I need help with fixing that so I can try to fix the rest of the broken installation. Would appreciate a helping hand with this! Anyone available right now?
If this is time critical, you might just boot a live image, pull off your data, and reinstall from scratch.
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If this is time critical, you might just boot a live image, pull off your data, and reinstall from scratch.
Thaaaat's what I'm worried about. I got a ton of stuff on here, apps, configurations, clipboard data, etc etc. so I don't wanna lose anything if I can avoid it, it's a lot. Is there really no way to fix this thing without a fresh reinstall? Right now the main hurdle is fixing the network thing in the recovery, is that impossible to fix or something?
If so, how would I go about pulling everything out and onto an external drive? Would I be able to start recovering stuff from there by like, idk dragging and dropping some folders here and there or?
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There listed, but everytime I try to boot in it greets me with a stuck cursor and a black screen, no idea what's going on.
Have yiu tried making sure network manager is enabled and started?
sudo systemctl enable NetworkManagersudo systemctl start NetworkManager -
Have yiu tried making sure network manager is enabled and started?
sudo systemctl enable NetworkManagersudo systemctl start NetworkManager -
Did you chroot and reupdate? You might want to reuse timeshift to roll back before doing so.
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Did you chroot and reupdate? You might want to reuse timeshift to roll back before doing so.
Sadly my system doesn't have ethernet, WiFi only.
Chroot and reupdate? What do you mean?
Also I completely forgot to even try to see if I can use timeshift in the recovery lol, that's an option! I can access it from the recovery, should I go with it first or?
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Sadly my system doesn't have ethernet, WiFi only.
Chroot and reupdate? What do you mean?
Also I completely forgot to even try to see if I can use timeshift in the recovery lol, that's an option! I can access it from the recovery, should I go with it first or?
Yes try to do that first. First research how to restore from timeshift backup so you do it properly.
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Yes try to do that first. First research how to restore from timeshift backup so you do it properly.
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I haven't used timeshift in at least three years so Im going to give you this instead of relying on my possibly faulty memory.
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Hay if the restore works might hold off on doing an update for a few days just too see if kubuntu had pushed a bad update. If they did they did they should fix it pretty quickly when they get a bunch of people with broken systems.
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I haven't used timeshift in at least three years so Im going to give you this instead of relying on my possibly faulty memory.
Alright thanks man. Just one issue now though: some stuff is a little screwed up, like the flatpak and apt repo stuff, and it also wants to upgrade everything via a regular software update, which is probably gonna brick everything again so, what do I do about that?
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Hay if the restore works might hold off on doing an update for a few days just too see if kubuntu had pushed a bad update. If they did they did they should fix it pretty quickly when they get a bunch of people with broken systems.
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You might want to file a bug report so they can grab some info from you that could help an updater get pushed sooner and help others.
Very glad you got up and running. Hopefully they will get a better update pushed out soon.
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Thaaaat's what I'm worried about. I got a ton of stuff on here, apps, configurations, clipboard data, etc etc. so I don't wanna lose anything if I can avoid it, it's a lot. Is there really no way to fix this thing without a fresh reinstall? Right now the main hurdle is fixing the network thing in the recovery, is that impossible to fix or something?
If so, how would I go about pulling everything out and onto an external drive? Would I be able to start recovering stuff from there by like, idk dragging and dropping some folders here and there or?
I got a ton of stuff on here, apps, configurations, clipboard data, etc etc. so I don’t wanna lose anything
Check out NixOS. Your entire OS is essentially in a config file, so if anything ever happens, you re-spawn your OS and all applications and things are exactly how you had them before. You only have to worry about personal data.
Concerning your personal data, look into getting/setting up a NAS. Can't lose PC data if the data isn't on your PC. lol
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Sadly my system doesn't have ethernet, WiFi only.
Chroot and reupdate? What do you mean?
Also I completely forgot to even try to see if I can use timeshift in the recovery lol, that's an option! I can access it from the recovery, should I go with it first or?
Chroot and fix broken packages, you can try apt or aptitude.
Chroot: boot from live and mount the hard disk -
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