Computer shut down during an upgrade, now will only blink repeatedly instead of starting up all the way.

Asked by Marissa

I was upgrading to a more current version of Ubuntu and everything was going fine, until suddenly my laptop shut off completely. When I push the powder button, the screen will light up, but that's it. I can't do anything and the screen flickers between complete black and gray erratically.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said :
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If you hold SHIFT can you log in to recovery mode then select root? If so run:

 fuser -vki /var/lib/dpkg/lock;dpkg --configure -a && reboot

HTH

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marcobra (Marco Braida) (marcobra) said :
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Please press ctrl + alt + F1 and try to login with your user and password then type:

sudo dpkg --configure -a
sudo apt-get -f install
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
sudo apt-get autoremove

sudo reboot

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Thomas Krüger (thkrueger) said :
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Did I get it right: only the backlight of the screen goes on and there is nothing to see on the screen? No BIOS, no manifactuerer logo?
In this case you should make sure the laptop is actually off and not in standby. The best way to do this is removing the battery for a few seconds. If it still shows nothing at all, I'm afraid the laptop's hardware might be damaged and you should contact the manifacturer support.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said :
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