After upgrading to 18.04 from 16.04, I am unable to use nautilus or use the terminal or listen to any audio and my internet speed has reduced

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So I just upgraded to Ubuntu 18.04 from 16.04 and I have been trying to use it. But nothing is working. I have looked up various answers on askubuntu and I have been unable to fix any of the symptoms. The terminal refuses to open, but I have been able to use xterm from which I have been able to open the file explorer using nautilus command. However, I cannot open it via clicking on the icon. For the audio, I have tried using the guide mentioned here by installing Pavucontrol but that hasn't worked either. For the terminal, I tried following this but my system languages seem okay. Plus I have been trying to watch videos and even posting this question proved to be horribly slow, and this was not an issue ever before. I would really appreciate it if someone could help out here.

Edit : I tried changing the language to UK and making everything UK in the Languages section but that has not helped either.

There's probably a way to repair it, but it might be faster and less painful to just reinstall. — wjandrea, Aug 22 '18 at 15:24
I have no idea how to go about that. I have a dual booted HP system and have data I cannot afford to lose. — Anshuman Kumar, Aug 22 '18 at 15:27
See How to reinstall Ubuntu in the easiest way? and make sure to make a backup before you start. — wjandrea, Aug 22 '18 at 15:28
@wjandrea, is there no way out of this without a hard reset? — Anshuman Kumar, Aug 22 '18 at 16:46
If there is, I don't know what it is. So to me, the more obvious solution is just to reinstall. — wjandrea, Aug 22 '18 at 16:48
BTW, a hard reset is something different. But on that note, have you already tried restarting the machine? — wjandrea, Aug 22 '18 at 16:52
I tried everything and have been able to make the audio work. The terminal isn't working still or the file explorer but I have been able to open the file explorer by typing 'nautilus' in the xterm — Anshuman Kumar, Aug 22 '18 at 16:58
I tried a lot of sources which I will list down and rebooted my pc. Somehow it managed to work for ten minutes — Anshuman Kumar, Aug 22 '18 at 17:23
Apologies for the delay but I had reset everything back to normal in the BIOS and somehow that made things work... for a while. — Anshuman Kumar, Aug 22 '18 at 17:56

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 03 '18 at 15:00

If anyone else has this issue, the surefix is to downgrade to 16.04, or in case of specific programs, replace them with something else as I used Nemo instead of Nautilus and Terminator in place of gnome-terminal. There is no fix for the audio issue that seemed to work, so you might want to back up all your data and just re-install all the OS. Following the regular procedure of installation did the trick for me.

After upgrading to 18.04 from 16.04, I am unable to use nautilus or use the terminal or listen to any audio and my internet speed has reduced

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