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submitted 4 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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So I installed Ubuntu on a HP laptop, I was upgrading to a new version and the installation got stucked. I rebooted the PC and now it tells me that something went wrong, if I get to the login screen It enters a loop. I think that I'm entering the right username but It gives me login incorrect, I know the password is correct. So what do I do now? I'll appreciate any help you can give me.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Can you switch to console? Try ctrl+alt+F2 when the system is booted up and log in to that.

I suppose some package update was interrupted or crashed. You can attempt to re-run what's missing with 'sudo apt-get install' and 'sudo dpkg-reconfigure -a'. And, assuming your console access works, you can at least check log files on what's wrong, but for that I don't think any generic 'read /var/log/syslog' file is too helpful as there's a ton of stuff and with things like journalctl it's pretty difficult to navigate around if you don't know what you're looking for.

And also, more details would be helpful. What you mean by 'enters a loop', what it actually says that went wrong and so on.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

This is good info OP, this is the basics of how you fix it