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I got a prompt to update my Ubuntu version from 20.04 to 22.04. I chose to upgrade, but the upgrade failed for some unknown reasons (most probably it couldn't update my NVidia drivers). I was seeing no internet connectivity in my laptop, so I force restarted it.

No GUI comes now, and every restart takes me to emergency mode. I have never faced such an issue. This is what happens during boot now.boot

sudo apt-get update doesn't work now, because Ubuntu cannot connect to the Internet anymore. update

I tried fsck on every partition, but nothing got solved.fsck

Even I tried fsck on home partition explicitly using fsck -f -y, but no result.home

I tried reinstalling ubuntu desktop, but it failed.desktop

lsblk and fstab don't show any mismatch in UUID either.uuid

I tried sudo apt autoremove. A lot of packages got removed, but the main problem didn't get solved.

I am getting confused about what to do now.

Preetom Saha Arko
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Following the answer to this question, I created a bootable USB of Ubuntu 20.04. Then I booted using that USB and selected "Try Ubuntu". This enabled me to use an internet connection. My root folder was in partition /dev/sda2, so I mounted it using the steps mentioned in the answer. Now I got access to the root folder.

apt-get install ubuntu-desktop cannot resolve conflicts, so I had to execute aptitude install ubuntu-desktop. I allowed the time necessary to resolve all the conflicts. Thus ubuntu-desktop was installed. Now I executed apt update and apt upgrade (You may need to execute apt autoremove too).

Now it's time to exit and unmount. I followed the steps outlined in the answer to the question I have previously mentioned.

Preetom Saha Arko
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