Hi there, I’m hoping someone here more knowledgeable than me can put together some of the clues I’ve found and see if my Ubuntu installation is salvageable or if I’ll need to do a complete reinstall.
A couple of days ago I was playing a game in Pico8 which then became completely unresponsive. I then went to force shutdown by long-pressing the power button. When I rebooted, the laptop started up but eventually came to hang on a black screen with an underscore in the top left corner, with no ability to enter anything on the keyboard.
I was able to boot into all 3 different liveUSBs I tried: the Ubuntu install USB, a systemrescue USB and a Tails USB.
I was able to access my root filesystem and copy my entire home folder onto an external drive for backup. I just started trying things at that point: using ddrescue and fsck which both came back with no errors, as well as logging in as root in ubuntu recovery and trying apt-get update and apt-get upgrade, which didn’t help either.
From this I feel like I can be pretty confident that the hardware is working and that the nvme drive is also functional, and I am able to login as root in ubuntu recovery mode, so I’m at a bit of a loss. I’ve got a bunch of video and screenshots of various error messages I’ve encountered but I’m afraid they wont be much use as I wasn’t paying close attention to what exactly I did to generate them.
I am officially completely out of my depth here and would appreciate any help I can get. Thank you!