And today, Ubuntu decided to commit harakiri after a self-suggested update.

Shit has been hitting the fan since, like, Thursday. Left and right, bad news and issues. I feel like I'm reaching my limits tbh.

https://askubuntu.com/questions/...

Same issue as this guy, except most of the apps also don't open. Including none of my terminals. But ubuntu software center does which is ridiculous.
Installed a different desktop, and that one can't even log in.

Basically snap installed software works. Nothing native tho.

And this is why Debian still is the best distro our there. I feel sorry for you and tour troubles. What I would do is live boot, chroot the partitions on disk and get your latest apt log, try to rollback if possible.. Or do it the masochistic way and "fix very error along the way"...

@bigmonsterlover not a choice here. Work stuff run only on this specific crap. Sad. ☹️

@NeatNerdPrime I had to do something like this a couple of weeks ago. An update somehow botched something in fstab? (Definitely not my fault… ** stares at floor **)

@dontbeevil hey at least I can still log in!

You could try Mint. Since it's Ubuntu based, it should run everything Ubuntu does, including PPAs. Except Snap because that's disabled intentionally, but even that can be added in Mint. Cinnamon is pretty nice and also gets you rid of Gnome.

Mint 20.3 if you have to use Ubuntu 20.04, or Mint 21 if you're on Ubuntu 22.04.

Only disadvantage: there is no Mint with KDE, and while that can be added, it's not a tested configuration, and support in the forums is not as good as for the regular editions with Cinnamon, Mate, or XFCE.

I had no issues on several Mint machines (even for non-IT end users) over the last two years, even the major upgrade from Mint 20.3 to 21 worked flawlessly.

@Archive did you found the solution if yes what was the Problem?

One time I deinstalled a package via apt purge <> --auto-remove

Then some applications didn't work anymore -> rebooted system to be greeted by the initramfs

--auto-remove uninstalls unneeded dependency packages if they are no longer needed but sometimes it wants also delete lvm2 and cryptsetup package which is a critical requierement for lvm installations

Seems this bug exists since 2016/17 I had this a month ago xD

@jackpearce nope. Found a recurring issue in linux forums tho, on a related error message. The issue started last year and apparently still continues with 5.15.0 kernel.

Btw., do you have Timeshift installed? At least in Mint, that's one of the standard applications that makes system snapshots. I put mine to weekly and keeping the last three.

If an update should go seriously wrong, I can boot in from a thumb drive and restore the previous one that worked.

Only the system, not the /home directory is backed up, so that restoring a system snapshot won't wipe out a week of my user data. User data backup has to be done separately.

@Fast-Nop nope. Should do that tho.

Update: as more shit started to hit the fan, I also picked my sword... And reinstalled the entire ubuntu shit.

@Archive you have my axe!

@NeatNerdPrime

And your old ubuntu