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I was attempting to upgrade my Ubuntu Gnome 17.04 dist to Ubuntu 17.10, I ran

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

Everything went well as far as the console output for the download and installation. I chose yes to all options (download, install new, remove unused) Then on boot I get a number of [ OK ] messages and it then hangs. The last three OK messages are as follows:

[ OK ] Created slice User Slice of gdm.
Starting user Manager for UID 120...
[ OK ] Started Session c1 of user gdm.
[ OK ] Started User Manager for UID 120.

How do I troubleshoot what the issue is? Thanks for any tips/advice.

wjandrea
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edencorbin
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First of all. Use the update-manager to do the upgrade (or do-release-upgrade in the terminal). It takes care of many problems that can occur by just doing a dist-upgrade.

Secondly, the same thing happened to me. I had the nvidia binary drivers installed and they didn't work anymore. I switched to a different TTY to log in (ctrl+alt+2) and removed the binary drivers. After that I was able to boot Ubuntu and reinstall them.

mniess
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