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Long time Ubuntu user that has gone through many LTS upgrades when the .01 version becomes available. This time the upgrade has really borked. It looked to try to rollback but clearly has failed. Now no gui, command line at 22.04, apparently no network (ping 8.8.8.8 does not work).

My (old) laptop does not seem to allow boot from USB (I cut a 24.04.01 iso with Rufus).

So stuck.

It seems my only option is to try to get a 22.04 DVD and see if I can re-install from there unless anyone can suggest a way forward.

TIA

Barry Winter
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I just had the exact same experience, see my answer here which will hopefully quickly fix your install like it did mine: https://askubuntu.com/a/1525039/1061422

codlord
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I have same problem as OP - Tried multiple times using the Ubuntu GUI "Software Updater"... "Upgrade..." button to get my 22.04LTS upped to 24.04 - After a seemly successful download\install\cleanup my laptop reboots via grub into bare metal terminal prompt with zilch networking. Typing "startx" results in "can't connect to X server". "/usr/bin/X" not found. Tried using apt but it fails with multiple "can't resolve gb.archive.ubuntu.com" errors. A bit more digging and found ethernet network isn't up so something has broken networking - "ip link show" said eth0 down. Done some more digging today.... "nmcli" command not found. Managed to up eth0 via "sudo networkctl up eth0" - hasn't made any difference. " sudo systemctl network-manager restart" fails with "network-manager.service" doesn't exist.

Summary so far - looks like the upgrade process completely screws up networking.

Good job I did a full disk backup using Clonezilla - so I can now fairly easily (20 minutes) switch between my fully working 22.04 and a duff 24.04. (I highly recommend users have a bootable Clonezilla CD and external USB drive for regular bare metal backups).

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