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I've just upgraded my Lenovo laptop from 16.04.LTS to 18.04 LTS and now can't get into Ubuntu (though dual loading with Win10 is OK).

When I get to the login screen, my user id appears, but if I then click on it I get a flash of the next screen (presumably where I'd enter my password) and Authentication Error appears and the system hangs - it shows the last block check data.

From the login screen (if I don't click on my name) I can use Ctrl and then log in and get to the command line. I've tried to do an update but it seems I don't have an internet connection (though it was working OK before the upgrade) so all of the answers I've looked at relating to similar questions won't work.

I asked the question initially on the Ubuntu Forums and only got one response which was to run sudo apt remove upstart --purge but which came with the warning that I ran it at my own risk! Again, it seems I might have a problem downloading any replacement packages.

Can somebody help me please?

Regards tomfilery

Added 5 Aug.

I tried the poster's suggestion but to no avail. From a bootable disk I can access the internet using an eternet connection, however, from the root of the installed version I can't. As far as I can tell only my bluetooth is off, wifi should be on but isn't working. If I try to run an update it can't access the ubuntu URL. I was going to reinstall Ubuntu (but don't want to lose exisiting info) but can't work out how to tell it which sda to use as boot, etc. - it just isn't intuitive Perhaps it's time to admit defeat and go back to Windows?

tom

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I had ensured that I had backed up my Ubuntu system and data files prior to upgrading to 18.04 and, in the absence of any concrete help, after some research re loading data and settings back into various programs I decided that I could afford to reinstall Ubuntu from a live DVD using the option to reinstall Ubuntu overwriting existing data - so that is what I did. Slightly weird thing is it loaded Ubuntu on a 16GB partition and left all my existing data on a separate partition (400GB). So, at last it is up and running - now I just (he says) have to reload some apps and set them up.

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