so can you provide more info like you can't see login screen or you're seeling a black screen only?
#Issues with starting Ubuntu 25.04
fiery dove
backup your data before you attempt fixing it
fiery dove
just copy your home folder to any other parition in your ssd
You have to reinstall again
And please don't use ubuntu I know many people will like why you say that but ubuntu is being ass and they don't care about it
so use other debian based distros or fedora if you're a new user
clever robin
If you're able to get into a terminal, you can look at the logs from your previous boot to hopefully see why it crashed with journalctl -xeb -1
clever robin
You might not be looking at an actual crash log yet. The -1 was your previous boot, if you had gone to rescue mode and shut down normally, it won't be a crash log. Try to recreate the issue then do that again
To fully check apt, I would run apt update then apt dist-upgrade followed by apt autoremove if those two commands tell you that anything extra is installed.
It won't do anything until you say yes, so it's safe to at least look at what it's doing
clever robin
Kali is a meme distro at this point. Anyone who needs to use it knows when to use it.
That autoremove looked like it wanted to delete a lot
What was the error on the update step?
Sounds like it never really cleaned up the previous version as it got updated. Bionic was what, 20.04? I haven't really used Ubuntu in a while
I'll point out here that 25.04 is an interim release, intended as a tech preview basically. You should usually stick to the lts releases like 22.04 and 24.04 unless you have a need to go to 25.04 because that's where canonical does their experimentation. I would only use an interim release if your prepared to triage and report bugs back upstream.
fiery dove
so you still on ubuntu?
fiery dove
Gui still isn't loading for you?
fiery dove
I thought you were going to reinstall ubuntu
That's why I fucking hate ubuntu and gnome idk why people suggest ubuntu, one major upgrade ubuntu got error out of the ass
fiery dove
You want to recover your data?
Wait did ubuntu switch to rust based core utils in 25?
There's a way but for that you'll need two pendrives
Make one pendrive bootable with other distro or use any perndrive that is already flashed with any linux distro and go in live boot and plug another one and copy your data to it
Backing up your data
Bro can you access tty?
Then you gotta nuke gnome completely
And install it fresh or install kde or any other desktop environment
Runs all these three commands
sudo apt-get remove --purge gnome*
sudo apt-get autoremove
sudo apt-get purge gnome*
The last one will removw gnome's config file
fiery dove
Now there is no gui environment is installed on your system and now install any desktop environment you like and check if that works
Now install kde by
sudo apt install kde-standard
It won't format your drive but it can remove all of your gnome apps
Yeah like gnome-maps gnome-boxes gnome-calender etc
Flatpaks won't be affected
And your apps like browsers and other apps
Nothing will happen to them
Or you can install gnome again and you sure that you don't have gnome extensions installed?
Just go with gnome
sudo apt install gnome
If this throws an error then I gotta find the correct command
Did you remove the broken packages?
Cuz if you don't remove it new packages will not install
You have to remove old and broken packages
Autoremove only removes those packages that either broken or unused
Remove
Tyep y
And reinstall gnome
It's showing you all 154 packages that'll be going to remove
Do that and I'll be back in 20 mins
Now install gnome again
sudo apt update
sudo apt install gnome-shell ubuntu-gnome-desktop
fiery dove
then you gotta install these dependencies first
you see that line unsatisfied dependencies
Nah man you gotta manually install evey dependecy you see there
like gnome-core need evolution-server
clever robin
I think you've got to have mismatched apt sources after your update, what is the output of grep -r --include '*.list' '^deb ' /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/
But I'm getting ready for work, so can't really hang out to troubleshoot
Because you put a comma in the first filename
fiery dove
Because you put a comma in the first filename
bruh I can't even see here how did you spot that? 😭
true
clever robin
Okay, the grep was supposed to filter out down to just the important stuff, but try this instead:
cat /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/* | less
And show us the output (you'll probably have to scroll through multiple pages)
clever robin
https://releases.ubuntu.com/
I feel like this is the primary issue, you probably have extra ppa files added that refer to oracular and noble and others, when you're trying to update to plucky.
I don't use Ubuntu, so my advice here should be verified, but if you backup all of these files, then remove anything that isn't referring to plucky, you might be able to complete a proper update sequence.
Again, my advice should be verified, and you should keep backup copies of these files before taking any other actions.
My final bit of advice is that running interim release of Ubuntu is a Bad Idea™️ unless you are able and willing to file bug reports. Regular users should not run interim releases.
clever robin
Running a prerelease interim is its own special flavor of insanity. More power to you.
fiery dove
and it should teach you a very imp lesson
why you should stay away from ubuntu
specifically
fiery dove
arch cuz you have patience
fiery dove
are you dual booting?
fiery dove
no problem you still can do it, also did you installed your bootloader on a new partition or you just reinstalled it where it was originally
fiery dove
I mean you still can dual boot
fiery dove
You want to delete or remove old boot files
fiery dove
ok what do you wanna do tell me then I'll share an article because I'm confused too
uefi?
yeah then what is ubi?
I still don't get it
well type lsblk and send me a screenshot and I'll tell you if you're missing anything
bruh you're something else you use every single app as snap goddamn bro
fiery dove
what did you understand?
you're learning bro
and you know what flatpaks are?
they come with their own dependency so you'll never have to worry about dependency issue ever
you can set the permission level like which folder's they can read and write and many more options
dependency are small programs that are required to by any app or other programs
wait let me show you an example
these are all the dependencies for zen browser
and some of which can be remove when the installation is done
and you won't face any dependency issue in your life cuz distros are designed that
lmao they're in kb
and don't worry when the installation is done only required ones stays on your system and other will be removed automatically
all are same
since you're gonna use cyber security apps and they work on every distro
so it doesn't really matter
kali
clever robin
bruh you're something else you use every single app as snap goddamn bro
That's just Ubuntu nowadays. Becoming reason number one not to use it