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When Software Updater offered 24.04 LTS, I allowed it to install. When I came back, there was just a black screen with a cursor for a few hours, so I cycled power. When it came "up", a black screen asked for my login, so I did. It prints a few URLs, says I should turn on "Expanded Security Maintenance for Applications", 704 updates can be applied immediately, Enable ESM Apps to receive future security updates, flatpak error loading libnettle.so.8

How do I recover my system at some LTS revision?

David G. Pickett
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I ran into the same problem, here's what I did in order to fix it.

First of all, through GRUB I found a kernel version that could still boot and I was welcomed by a root shell.

Then I connected to internet with:

root# ip addr add 192.168.1.10/24 dev MY-DEVICE #add ip address
root# route add default gw 192.168.1.1 #add gateway (router)
root# echo "8.8.8.8" > /etc/resolv.conf #set DNS

At this point, I tried to run apt install --fix-broken, which let me kindly now that I was missing the libnettle8 package; I installed it manually with

root# wget http://launchpadlibrarian.net/679187946/libnettle8_3.9.1-2_amd64.deb
root# dpkg -i libnettle8_3.9.1-2_amd64.deb

After that, apt install --fix-broken worked again; I had to manually fix some other errors (uninstalling a couple packages with apt uninstall), then updated again everything with:

root# apt update && apt upgrade -y
root# apt dist-upgrade
root# apt install ubuntu-release-upgrader-core
root# reboot

I think I won't upgrade again until 2029.

Simone Fabbri
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