System messed up after system update
by Arct1c_f0x from LinuxQuestions.org on (#5029S)
I've been using linux for a year or two now (so pretty new user), and I fiercely love linux and never want to use and other OS again (btw hi guys, this is my first post). I am still however a noob so please bear with me. I've read a lot of documentation for my problem and tried to fix it but I'm stuck.. The problem I'm having is with Debian 9 stretch installed on a partition I really love using
So I updated my system with apt-get update or some such command and then the computer told me I needed to reboot (because of something with my new nvidia drivers) I typed systemctl reboot (as I had learned online to do after such an update) and when I booted back into my system while the system was started up it read
[FAILED] Failed to start Load Kernel Modules
See 'systemctl status systemd-modules-load.service' for details
and a white screen pops up after that reads:
"Oh no! something has gone wrong.
A problem has occurred and the system can't recover
Please log out and try again"
I think what happened is that I interrupted the update somehow because otherwise everything should work. It seemed like the terminal was done with the update... but when I typed systemctl reboot it said: "stopping job" or something like that in red letters. That's why I fear I interrupted a process to soon...
I rebooted in recovery mode as I read I should do online and tried to use the following commands in cli like I read online for my problem. but when I ran the first (apt-get update), it read "Failed to fetch http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/stretch/InRelease" and a bunch of other "failed to fetch" errors and "Temporary failure resolving 'ftp.us.debian.org'" errors
apt-get update
dpkg --configure -a
apt-get dist-upgrade
apt-get -f install
Next I figured the reason none of these commands worked is because I hadn't set up my ethernet connectivity in recovery mode so I tried to do that and I feel like I maybe got it working but still it gives me the same messages about "failure to fetch" when I try to enter any of the above commands...
Please guys any help with resolving this problem would be mighty helpful.
That's the partition I like writing python on and everything on it is just the way I like. Thanks in advance for the help I'm willing to post photos if that helps.
Arct1c_fox
So I updated my system with apt-get update or some such command and then the computer told me I needed to reboot (because of something with my new nvidia drivers) I typed systemctl reboot (as I had learned online to do after such an update) and when I booted back into my system while the system was started up it read
[FAILED] Failed to start Load Kernel Modules
See 'systemctl status systemd-modules-load.service' for details
and a white screen pops up after that reads:
"Oh no! something has gone wrong.
A problem has occurred and the system can't recover
Please log out and try again"
I think what happened is that I interrupted the update somehow because otherwise everything should work. It seemed like the terminal was done with the update... but when I typed systemctl reboot it said: "stopping job" or something like that in red letters. That's why I fear I interrupted a process to soon...
I rebooted in recovery mode as I read I should do online and tried to use the following commands in cli like I read online for my problem. but when I ran the first (apt-get update), it read "Failed to fetch http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/stretch/InRelease" and a bunch of other "failed to fetch" errors and "Temporary failure resolving 'ftp.us.debian.org'" errors
apt-get update
dpkg --configure -a
apt-get dist-upgrade
apt-get -f install
Next I figured the reason none of these commands worked is because I hadn't set up my ethernet connectivity in recovery mode so I tried to do that and I feel like I maybe got it working but still it gives me the same messages about "failure to fetch" when I try to enter any of the above commands...
Please guys any help with resolving this problem would be mighty helpful.
That's the partition I like writing python on and everything on it is just the way I like. Thanks in advance for the help I'm willing to post photos if that helps.
Arct1c_fox