Restart dosn't work anymore

[steve7233]

When I click restart from the menu, the only thing that happens is that the application bar disappears! I am going to try opening a Konsel and trying a Sudo reboot.

[steve7233]

Nope CTRL ALT T just shows a very small black box with a white greater than sign in it. Discover just did a few updates to GTK packages so maybe GTK got borked? When 'discover' got the updates it gave me some errors:

It seems copy/past isn't working and since the taskbar disappeared then I can't access the clipboard to see if it is there but several repos had no candidates for packages.

[Snowhog]

Just reboot and choose Advanced options for Ubuntu and then the first (recovery mode) entry from Grub.

Once you see the Recovery Menu, down arrow to network and press Enter. When the Recovery Menu appears again, down arrow to root and press Enter. At the prompt type: apt update and when it's finished, type: apt full-fullupgrade

When the prompt returns, type: exit

At the Recover Menu, press Enter and Enter again.

[steve7233]

I pressed the reset button on my case and the computer reset. When It finished rebooting I typed CTRL + ALT = T and attempted an update:

[FONT=monospace][COLOR=#54ff54][B]vince@steven-tobefilledbyoem[/B][/COLOR][COLOR=#000000]:[/COLOR][COLOR=#5454ff][B]~[/B][/COLOR][COLOR=#000000]$ sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade [/COLOR]
[sudo] password for vince:  
Hit:1 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble InRelease
Hit:2 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble-security InRelease                                              
Hit:3 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble-updates InRelease                                            
Hit:4 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble-backports InRelease                                    [COLOR=#b26818]      [/COLOR][COLOR=#000000] [/COLOR]
Hit:5 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble-proposed InRelease                                      
Hit:6 http://cz.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu oracular InRelease[COLOR=#b26818]                                           [/COLOR][COLOR=#000000] [/COLOR]
Hit:7 https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/graphics-drivers/ppa/ubuntu noble InRelease
[COLOR=#000000][B]1 package can be upgraded. Run 'apt list --upgradable' to see it.[/B][/COLOR][COLOR=#000000] [/COLOR]
Not upgrading:                  
 libcanberra-pulse

Summary:
 Upgrading: 0, Installing: 0, Removing: 0, Not Upgrading: 1
[COLOR=#54ff54][B]vince@steven-tobefilledbyoem[/B][/COLOR][COLOR=#000000]:[/COLOR][COLOR=#5454ff][B]~[/B][/COLOR][COLOR=#000000]$ [/COLOR][/FONT]

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I don't know what is wrong. How can I get you more information to help figure this out?

[steve7233]

Just reboot and choose Advanced options for Ubuntu and then the first (recovery mode) entry from Grub.

Once you see the Recovery Menu, down arrow to network and press Enter. When the Recovery Menu appears again, down arrow to root and press Enter. At the prompt type: apt update and when it's finished, type: apt full-fullupgrade

When the prompt returns, type: exit

At the Recover Menu, press Enter and Enter again.

ERROR: Invalid operation apt full-fullupgrade

[Snowhog]

You should be using sudo apt full-upgrade (instead of sudo apt upgrade as you show above). Over time, if one always uses sudo apt upgrade, the likelihood of system breakage increases. That's because of the difference in how apt handles dependencies with upgrade vs full-upgrade.

In the terminal, type: sudo apt update && sudo apt full-upgrade

Note any actual Errors it might spit out.

[Snowhog]

ERROR: Invalid operation apt full-fullupgrade

My bad! That should be full-upgrade (sudo apt full-upgrade). Fat fingers this morning.

[steve7233]

My bad! That should be full-upgrade (sudo apt full-upgrade). Fat fingers this morning.

I understand the fat fingers' excuse. That will be 60 lases with a wet noodle! That's flogging via Monty Python style.

[steve7233]

You should be using sudo apt full-upgrade (instead of sudo apt upgrade as you show above). Over time, if one always uses sudo apt upgrade, the likelihood of system breakage increases. That's because of the difference in how apt handles dependencies with upgrade vs full-upgrade.

In the terminal, type: sudo apt update && sudo apt full-upgrade

Note any actual Errors it might spit out.

vince@steven-tobefilledbyoem:~$ sudo apt update && sudo apt full-upgrade
[sudo] password for vince:
Hit:1 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble InRelease
Hit:2 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble-updates InRelease
Hit:3 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble-backports InRelease
Hit:4 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble-proposed InRelease
Hit:5 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble-security InRelease
Hit:6 http://cz.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu oracular InRelease
Hit:7 https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/gra...ers/ppa/ubuntu noble InRelease
1 package can be upgraded. Run 'apt list --upgradable' to see it.
Not upgrading:
libcanberra-pulse

Summary:
Upgrading: 0, Installing: 0, Removing: 0, Not Upgrading: 1
vince@steven-tobefilledbyoem:~$

[Princey]

Your issue is libcanberra-pulse. Not sure why it sticks like this. I had the issue and fought over it for a while before I bit the bullet. I uninstalled the package libcanberra-pulse

sudo apt remove libcanberra-pulse -y

once the removal was completed, I installed it with the updated version being installed instead

sudo apt install libcanberra-pulse -y

For some unknown reason, (never bother to waste half a day looking for the reason) libcanberra-pulse fails updating and starts causing minor quirks. Problem was solved when I performed the aforementioned.

[kubicle]

Judging by the apt output, you also have both "noble" [24.04] and "oracular" [24.10] repositories enabled (and only the base repo for oracular...is there a specific reason for that?), this can lead to version mismatches.