I adopted a Dell XPS 13, updated the Ubuntu 16.04 to 18.04, and gave it the MacBuntu environment for my girlfriend to use. Everything worked great! Then I got it in my head to run Steam, mainly to play Civilization 6. Experiments creating a swap file to manage resources however seemed to backfire, (“Challenges to Creating and using SWAP files in Ubuntu 18.04”) and now I can no longer boot! I enter recovery mode, try FSCK, and it gives me a clean bill of health. When I resume normal boot however… Nothing. Just a cursor. When I attempt to boot past it I hang on the Ubuntu splash screen. I hit escape, and get a long list of Failures, a few OKs, and one or two Dependencies. Here’s a partial list I retyped myself.
Failed to start network name resolution, see systemct1 status systemd-resolved.service
Failed to start network time synchronisation see systemd-timesyncd.service for details
Failed to start Bluetooth service: systemct1 status bluetooth.service for details
Failed to start Modem Manager: systemct1 status ModemManager.service for details
Failed to start Avahi mDNS/DNS-SD Stack: see systemct1 status avahi-daemon.service for details
Failed to start Accounts Service: system ct1 status accounts-daemon.service for details
Failed to start Disk Manager: status udisks2.service for details
Failed to start Network Manager: see systemct1 status NetworkManager.service for details
DEPEND Dependency failed for Network Manager Wait Online.
Failed to start Tool to automatically collect and submit kernel crash signatures; see systemct1 status kerneloops.service for details
Failed to start Login Service: see systemct1 status systemd-logind.service for details.
Failed to start System Logging Service: see systemct1 status.rsyslog.service for details
Failed to start Network Manager…
Failed to start Login Service: see systemct1 status systemd-logind.service for details.
Failed to start Gnome Display Manager: see systemct1 gdm.service for details
Failed to start System Logging Service…
Failed to start System Login Service…
…Every time it says “Started D-Bus System Message Bus.” It fails at something… This is a partial list. WPA supplicant and Accounts Service aren’t listed. Then it tries
snapd.servicessnapd.serice
Alsa-restore.servicelsa-restore.service
…then a dbus service.
I liked the environment I crafted for my girlfriend, and don’t want to admit to my brother I might need his used Windows laptop to play Civ 6. How do I retrieve this distro?