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?

You should have the ability to boot back into the previously installed kernel version from Grub. Is that an option?

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.

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 NetworkManager

sudo systemctl start NetworkManager

Yep, but it doesn't do anything, still won't work for some reason.

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?

Yes try to do that first. First research how to restore from timeshift backup so you do it properly.

Alright I'm in! Timeshift worked! Used the --restore command, now what do I do from here?

Alright I'm in! Timeshift worked! Used the --restore command, now what do I do from here?

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.

https://itsfoss.com/backup-restore-linux-timeshift/

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.

More then noted my friend.

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?

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?