I am running ubuntu 21.10 on a dell XPS 15 laptop. It was working great until the other day when I would get a black screen at boot time.
I can start it in recovery mode, select 'resume' from the recovery menu and ubuntu will launch but only as a text command line, no GUI.
My laptop is dual-booted with Ubuntu and windows 11. Windows boots fine.
EDIT: I have run fsck from a live CD and the output is now:
/dev/nvme0n1p7: clean, 362747/15261696 files, 28576717/61019392 blocks
Where nvme0n1p7 is my ubuntu partition. So everything seems to be fine with the filesystem.
EDIT: Something else I've tried is enabling networking and then running dpkg from the recovery menu to repair broken packages and I get this output:
Reading cache
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
No candidate ver: google-chrome-stable
No candidate ver: linux-image-5.11.41-generic
No candidate ver: linux-image-5.11.49-generic
No candidate ver: linux-modules-5.11.41-generic
No candidate ver: linux-modules-5.11.49-generic
No candidate ver: linux-modules-extra-5.11.27-generic
No candidate ver: linux-modules-extra-5.11.41-generic
No candidate ver: linux-modules-extra-5.11.49-generic
No candidate ver: teamviewer
No candidate ver: zoom
Calculating the changes
No candidate ver: google-chrome-stable
No candidate ver: linux-image-5.11.41-generic
No candidate ver: linux-image-5.11.49-generic
No candidate ver: linux-modules-5.11.41-generic
No candidate ver: linux-modules-5.11.49-generic
No candidate ver: linux-modules-extra-5.11.27-generic
No candidate ver: linux-modules-extra-5.11.41-generic
No candidate ver: linux-modules-extra-5.11.49-generic
No candidate ver: teamviewer
No candidate ver: zoom
Finished, please press ENTER
I used dpkg purge to remove google chrome, zoom, and teamviewer but to no effect. I'm more cautious removing / reinstalling the system related packages, especially since I don't know if that will solve anything.
anyone have any ideas / need more info?
