Help with Ubuntu

[Hampoon]

Hey there! I dualbooted my laptop recently. It came with Windows 10 and I installed Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS alongside that. I've been loving it and all, but a few days ago it started doing something weird. While doing the startup dance as I like to call it (where on boot your screen is flooded with text), it just gets stuck on "Started hold until boot process finishes up." It does not move on. I have tried CTRL+ALT+F* stuff and it didn't work. Also, I've seen some stuff with some lightdm thingie or whatever and even when I go into recovery mode it's not even installed on my computer in the first place. I have no idea what the hell lightdm even is... Please help me. I want my Ubuntu back.

[Ashley MLP Fangirl]

was this after an update? 

 

can you post the specs of your laptop? 

 

lightdm is a display manager. you see it as your login screen, but it also does a few other things. lightdm was replaced with gdm since ubuntu 17.10 i think (not sure), so it's not installed in 18.04 either. nothing to worry about. 

[Hampoon]

Just now, firelighter487 said:

was this after an update? 

 

can you post the specs of your laptop? 

 

lightdm is a display manager. you see it as your login screen, but it also does a few other things. lightdm was replaced with gdm since ubuntu 17.10 i think (not sure), so it's not installed in 18.04 either. nothing to worry about. 

I don't remember doing an update. I have 12 gigs of ram, a 128gig SSD which is where Ubuntu and Windows are installed, a 1tb HDD, and an i7-8500u cpu. I might be stupid and have done an update but I doubt it

 

[Ashley MLP Fangirl]

@Hampoon please correct that quote. 

 

doing updates isn't stupid...

 

does your laptop have nvidia or amd graphics? 

 

10 minutes ago, Hampoon said:

While doing the startup dance as I like to call it (where on boot your screen is flooded with text)

have you done something to it? normally it shows an ubuntu logo... 

[TheGlenlivet]

Can you hold shift while you boot and see if that gets you to the GRUB menu, from there you can get a terminal to configure lightdm or whatever you need to do next.

[Hampoon]

1 minute ago, firelighter487 said:

@Hampoon please correct that quote. 

 

doing updates isn't stupid...

 

does your laptop have nvidia or amd graphics? 

 

have you done something to it? normally it shows an ubuntu logo... 

I didn't mean that it was stupid. Forget that part. I have Intel Integrated Graphics. So ye.

[Hampoon]

1 minute ago, Hampoon said:

I didn't mean that it was stupid. Forget that part. I have Intel Integrated Graphics. So ye.

Oh also! It shows the ubuntu logo and then goes to startup dance. It usually after that goes to the Ubuntu logo again and then I can login.

[yip]

Try ALT+F7 or ALT+F6

[Hampoon]

Just now, yip said:

Try ALT+F7 or ALT+F6

I said I already tried that.

[Ashley MLP Fangirl]

Just now, Hampoon said:

I didn't mean that it was stupid. Forget that part. I have Intel Integrated Graphics. So ye.

oh okay... 

 

Just now, Hampoon said:

I said I already tried that.

try control+alt+f1

 

2 minutes ago, Hampoon said:

Oh also! It shows the ubuntu logo and then goes to startup dance. It usually after that goes to the Ubuntu logo again and then I can login.

weird... my ubuntu installs usually don't do that unless there's some kind of issue. mine usually show 1 or 2 lines of text, not the whole screen... 

 

could you post a picture of the error message and maybe the "startup dance" text if possible? 

(make sure there's no personal info on there) 

[Hampoon]

1 minute ago, firelighter487 said:

oh okay... 

 

try control+alt+f1

 

weird... my ubuntu installs usually don't do that unless there's some kind of issue. mine usually show 1 or 2 lines of text, not the whole screen... 

 

could you post a picture of the error message and maybe the "startup dance" text if possible? 

(make sure there's no personal info on there) 

yeah sure one second m8

 

[yip]

'I have tried CTRL+ALT+F*' oh OK,
 

[yip]

Can you explain what you are calling recovery mode

 

[Hampoon]

11 minutes ago, firelighter487 said:

oh okay... 

 

try control+alt+f1

 

weird... my ubuntu installs usually don't do that unless there's some kind of issue. mine usually show 1 or 2 lines of text, not the whole screen... 

 

could you post a picture of the error message and maybe the "startup dance" text if possible? 

(make sure there's no personal info on there) 

it decided to go to the started wait blah blah blah this time, hmm. if you need it i also have a video

[Hampoon]

8 minutes ago, yip said:

Can you explain what you are calling recovery mode

 

i can drop to root shell in recovery mode as well as a few other options

[Ashley MLP Fangirl]

that's everything? 

 

1 minute ago, Hampoon said:

i can drop to root shell in recovery mode as well as a few other options

ok then. go into root shell and type:

sudo apt remove snapd

reboot

see if it's fixed. 

(if there was more info on the screen than in the picture this won't work)

[Hampoon]

2 minutes ago, firelighter487 said:

that's everything? 

 

ok then. go into root shell and type:

sudo apt remove snapd

reboot

see if it's fixed. 

(if there was more info on the screen than in the picture this won't work)

hmm okay.

[Hampoon]

2 minutes ago, firelighter487 said:

that's everything? 

 

ok then. go into root shell and type:

sudo apt remove snapd

reboot

see if it's fixed. 

(if there was more info on the screen than in the picture this won't work)

actually well there was more but it had to scroll here you go IMG_5318.MOV.mov

[Ashley MLP Fangirl]

1 minute ago, Hampoon said:

actually well there was more but it had to scroll here you go IMG_5318.MOV.mov

that's a video of a tree  

[Hampoon]

Just now, firelighter487 said:

that's a video of a tree  

and?? what is a tree? what kind of tree? a pear tree? i've always wanted one of those.

ok but for real what does that mean haha

[Ashley MLP Fangirl]

Just now, Hampoon said:

and?? what is a tree? what kind of tree? a pear tree? i've always wanted one of those.

ok but for real what does that mean haha

literally. it's a video looking at a tree. i think you uploaded the wrong file  

[Hampoon]

1 minute ago, firelighter487 said:

literally. it's a video looking at a tree. i think you uploaded the wrong file  

frick

 

[Ashley MLP Fangirl]

Just now, Hampoon said:

frick

 

on a serious note, just upload the correct file and i'll look at it. 

 

11 minutes ago, firelighter487 said:

ok then. go into root shell and type:

sudo apt remove snapd

reboot

see if it's fixed. 

do not do this anymore. i based that on just the pictture. if there's more text then this won't work. 

[Hampoon]

1 minute ago, firelighter487 said:

 

on a serious note, just upload the correct file and i'll look at it. 

 

do not do this anymore. i based that on just the pictture. if there's more text then this won't work. 

don't do what anymore?

[Hampoon]

Just now, Hampoon said:

don't do what anymore?

one sec i'm getting the video.