Dupe.

Not actually unclear.

OT Windows

Dupe

In this question the OP mentions:

> I am hopping for help recovering at lease enough to copy the files off the system.

So should it get a second dupe target about just recovering fully intact files from a non-broken filesystem in which a broken Ubuntu installation exists? We have stuff for that. For example, we have Recovering user files with a Live CD, though I don't know for sure if it's the best one.

I think we should close this one as a duplicate of that, though.

@EliahKagan Well, I've commented.

OT EoL

No repro‌​, I suppose. See the OP's self-answer.

OT Kali

Is this question a duplicate (see the answer)?

What information can we request for this? Or can it actually be answered? Do we already have something about how to repair systems that fail to boot after an unsuccessful release upgrade?

EoL

Unless edited, this question seems unclear and/or a duplicate (see comments).

Dupe (or the other way, but I think a better alternative than that would be to generalize the title on the current master question).

OT Mint

Dupe (or unclear).

Hmm, maybe we should stop closing these as off-topic for a while, and try to get something with an answer that's tested. I think my duplicate suggestion is reasonable--the specific problem is the same, and the answer seems right--but I don't think it's ideal, given the way the target question was asked (it's unclear if there are other problems and what info they really want).

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@EliahKagan OP has updated since your comment, but I am not sure what to suggest to them

@EliahKagan haha that's always the second thing to try after turning it off and on again

Is this an answer?

Dupe or OT EoL

OT caused by bug

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hmm... this answer seems to be mainly a request for information...

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OT: not reproducible

@EliahKagan The accepted answer instructs to add reboot=pci but if it dosen't work to try the other commands in place of pci. Therefor an answer that says " ...reboot=force worked for me. Thanks" is not essentially different than one that only says "thaks"

That is the reasoning for my comment.

@J.Starnes Sorry, you are right. I was mistaken. I've removed my comment. Thanks for clarifying. I think this is sort of borderline--if the answer had said "Use quiet splash reboot=force without "thanks," I think it may have been an answer (if we generally deleted answers that gave specific versions of other solutions, then numerous useful answers would be deleted). Still, it does seem its intent is as a "thanks" comment, and it doesn't explain why force is sometimes useful or how to use it.

I had skipped it in review. Now I've flagged it NAA. I'll retract my flag if they expand it as you suggest. (I'd upvote that comment but I'm out of comment upvotes for the day; perhaps someone else will see these messages and do so.)

No problems, it doesn't hurt to keep an eye on one another. If I hadn't pulled up the link to the question while in review I would have thought the answer just needed some significant expansion.

Do we have something for this?

OT Debian

I think this question is unclear - see the comments

smells minty askubuntu.com/q/985381

Probably Mint, yeah, because of the 18. I've miswritten "Ubuntu MATE" as "Ubuntu Mint," myself, but there is no Ubuntu MATE 18, while there is Linux Mint 18. I've commented to request more information. There's a lot of overlap between what we'd ask to figure out what OS they're running and what we'd ask to figure out where they were in the failed upgrade process, anyway.

Yes in normal it should be even the same steps to troubleshot in most cases

NAA

These both need a second reject review, as they're explicitly about installing the old skype package from the partner repository, which does not provide the new skypeforlinux package:

askubuntu.com/review/suggested-edits/785133

askubuntu.com/review/suggested-edits/785134

(archive.canonical.com/ubuntu/pool/partner/s/skype)

Similarly, edit #10 on this answer, which was approved, and which is rather extensive, will have to either be rolled back to fixed by a re-edit. I don't have time to do that right now, unfortunately. I am hoping someone else may be able to figure out what is best done on that particular question. (The edits above are simpler, though. If they're approved, they can simply be rolled back.)

* on that particular answer