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Seeing some odd behavior after shutting down my PC running Ubuntu 18.04. I did a hard push on the power button after the computer crashed while trying to kill an intense process that became a Zombie (I think this is unrelated).

After turning my computer on again I got to the splash page with 5 dots.

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I restarted and found I am now automatically given the grub menu. If I do not select Advanced Options, and just allow for a normal boot, I am not met with a four dot splash screen.

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If I choose Ctrl+C, I get an emergency mode shell (same as root)? But I am unsure of where to go from here.

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I expect the problem is with my nvidia-driver. While trying to install a large software package (AlphaFold) I believe I may have changed my nvidia and CUDA installation outside of a virtual environment.

I have a bootable Ubuntu 21.04 USB in the machine which I can also boot from.

If I got to recovery mode the system stops at 100% at Checking in Progress on 1 disk

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Any advice greatly appreciated.

Jacob Anderson
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    Wait? Something stopped your disk from properly loading up so a file system integrity check is being run. It can take time to run. Let it complete, no matter how long it takes. OTHERWISE, your system might not function properly. – Thomas Ward Aug 02 '21 at 16:03
  • Got it. I had stopped it after ~ 1 hour. Ill let it run the rest of the day. – Jacob Anderson Aug 02 '21 at 16:05

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