Last night, I was prompted to do a bunch of updates, so I let it download and install them. About 20% of the way through, according to the progress bar, it stopped and reset the update window and prompted me to reboot. So I did. About ten seconds into the splash screen, the hard drive sounds stopped and there was no further sign that anything was happening. Hitting Esc to show the text output of the bootup revealed that it had stopped after the lines
As I was writing this down, two more lines appeared:
Then it stopped for good. I tried restarting into recovery mode, enabling the networking, and running the package repair thing. This downloaded a great deal of data (possibly the remainder of the unfinished update?) but after rebooting again, the problem remained. Then I tried booting straight into a root command line and running apt-get update and apt-get upgrade. This removed about a gigabyte of files, but still no fix. Any idea what I can do at this point? My setup started with a fresh install of 12.04, upgraded to 14.04 Alpha 2 using kubuntu-devel-release-upgrade, and has received maybe two system updates since. No third-party drivers.
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Starting Mount network filesystems Stopping Mount network filesystems
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cups Starting CUPS printing spooler
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