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Ubuntu 18.04; Won't Boot After Shutdown

br flag

Seeing some odd behavior after shutting down my PC running Ubuntu 18.04. I did a hard push on the power button after the computer crashed while trying to kill an intense process that became a Zombie (I think this is unrelated).

After turning my computer on again I got to the splash page with 5 dots.

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I restarted and found I am now automatically given the grub menu. If I do not select Advanced Options, and just allow for a normal boot, I am not met with a four dot splash screen.

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If I choose Ctrl+C, I get an emergency mode shell (same as root)? But I am unsure of where to go from here.

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I expect the problem is with my nvidia-driver. While trying to install a large software package (AlphaFold) I believe I may have changed my nvidia and CUDA installation outside of a virtual environment.

I have a bootable Ubuntu 21.04 USB in the machine which I can also boot from.

If I got to recovery mode the system stops at 100% at Checking in Progress on 1 disk

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Any advice greatly appreciated.

ru flag
Wait? Something stopped your disk from properly loading up so a file system integrity check is being run. It can take time to run. Let it complete, no matter how long it takes. OTHERWISE, your system might not function properly.
Jacob Anderson avatar
br flag
Got it. I had stopped it after ~ 1 hour. Ill let it run the rest of the day.
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