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Partial upgrade to xubuntu 24.04 from 23.10, FS only accessible in recovery mode as root + wifi may be down. Help appreciated (lemmy.ml)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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before the issue, wifi app was configured not to start automatically because I sometimes change the mac after logging in. I usually enable it afterwards with iftop and then systemctl start NetworkManager.service && sudo nm-applet

Back to the issue: I can log in to recovery mode, filesystem is read and write, unsure that ‘network’ enables the network.

I can also root it.

If I execute sudo apt update output reads: failed to fetch http…. Could not connect to 127.0.0.1:8118, connection refused. I don’t know how to fix this.

8118 should be tor.

If I execute sudo apt install -f or dpkg –configure -a I get the regular list of packages I should delete with autoremove and the broken package I believe caused this issue during upgrade:

libfreerdp2-2

and a dpkg error:

/usr/sbin/update-info-dir: 11 /etc/environment: debug: not found dpkg: error processing package install-info (-configure) errors were encountered while processing install-info sub process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

lsb_release -a shows distro is 23.10

secondary questions: is there any way to access my data as root? I can cd to media and to my home directory, but this last directory appears as empty.

How do I change the font’s color as root? Very dark blue, cannot read anything

thanks

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (2 children)

wifi app was configured not to start automatically

With nmtui (or nmcli) you can activate WiFi connection.

I can cd to media and to my home directory, but this last directory appears as empty.

Does mount /home improve that ?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Does mount /home improve that ?

Im reading about nmtui

feel free to suggest other approaches

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

How about booting from Linux live medium (For example Ubuntu installation iso on pen drive, and choose Try without installing) and from there see if you can get to your home files.