Ok Devrant I have a problem. Ubuntu 17.10 is stuck in a login loop. I dont have any graphics drivers installed and I dont know what to do. The rest of the internet has been of no help. So anybody have any ideas?

“Have you tried turning it off and on again?”
-Every support

@R3zz0R 😂😂😂😂. But seriously tho you got any ideas?

check this: https://devrant.com/rants/1119546/...

@ThaOneDude open terminal with ctrl+alt+f2
Try to log in
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

(That’s how a colleague of mine solved it)

Ctrl + alt + f3
Then install your drivers.

@shelladdicted Thanks but im changing from gnome to unity and checking to see if it works.

@ewpratten done and dusted.

@Nanos @ewpratten @R3zz0R @shelladdicted Well i tried your solutions. They didnt work so... Im trying to roll back to a different kernel but thanks for trying.

@Nanos @ewpratten @R3zz0R @shelladdicted manage to get to the desktop logging in with unity but then it goes back.

Wouldn’t be a Lenovo, by any chance?

@scytheri0n it is. How did you know? Ideapad u310.

@ThaOneDude there’s a bios bug in 17.10 that affects Lenovo. You can’t even download 17.10 iso from Ubuntu anymore. I know it’s patched with 17.10.1 (according to Lubuntu) so if you can get to console maybe see if you can dist-upgrade? (Disclaimer: not an Ubuntu-guru)

@scytheri0n Thank you so much.

If it’s any help at all, a woman I was seeing last year had an ideapad for work running 17.10 (I think) and also had issues with her NIC. That was a kernel update so maybe also try booting with an older version of your kernel?

@scytheri0n thanks. My parents are flipping out at me for this computer failing.

No worries. (: I just wish *nix had a way of re-installing over an existing installation without any effect (like macOS)
EDIT: I suppose it might do, I’ve just never seen it.

Wait! I think I meant do-release-upgrade! Dist-upgrade might break things further 😱 #NoGuru

@scytheri0n i tried dist upgrade but nothing happened so it all worked out. Apart from the fact the problem still exists.

@ThaOneDude do-release-upgrade may still work (dist-upgrade won’t upgrade you from 16.04 to 17.10 eg AFAIK) so worth running it I guess

Get a LTS Ubuntu next time