From: jack.fearnley@concordia.ca   
      
   THE PROBLEM   
   I recently upgraded from 23.05 to 24.02 and have great difficulty booting   
   up. Right now the only way I can log in is to enter the second line of the   
   boot up screen and get 'advanced options'. Here there are four lines, the   
   fourth is recovery mode with kernel 31 (I think). I enter this and perform   
   'resume normal boot' This gives me a blank screen with a flashing cursor.   
   I perform 'ctrl alt F2' followed by the requested login and enter   
   'startx'.   
      
   If I am lucky this logs me in successfully. Otherwise it logs me into a   
   read only version and I have to power off and repeat the whole procedure.   
      
   I can perform 'ctrl alt F2' at other points but login and startx either   
   gives me a fatal error or a white screen saying something has gone wrong.   
      
   POSSIBLE RESOURCES   
   I have a test system on the same computer and I had no trouble upgrading   
   to 24.04 on it. Booting to the test system presents no problems and if I   
   had the necessary knowledge and experience I could no doubt probe the   
   problem system from the test system.   
      
   There may be commands I could use in the problem system itself if I knew   
   how.   
      
   A CLUE?   
   When I upgraded the test system I answered two questions. One was to leave   
   the Grub program alone and unfortunately I do not remember the other one   
   but I think I answered 'no'.   
      
   When I upgraded the problem system I answered to leave the Grub alone but   
   I passed the second question by simply accepting.   
      
   I'm sorry that I cannot remember the option in question but it is the only   
   difference I can recall in the two upgrades.   
      
   THE REQUEST   
   I would be most appreciative if anyone can explain this mess to me and   
   hopefully suggest a cure.   
      
   COMPUTER DETAILS   
   ## Hardware Information:   
   - **Hardware Model:**                              Dell Inc. XPS 8910   
   - **Memory:**                                      16.0 GiB   
   - **Processor:**                                   Intel® Core™ i7-6700 ×   
   8   
   - **Graphics:**                                    Software Rendering   
   - **Disk Capacity:**                               2.5 TB   
      
   ## Software Information:   
   - **Firmware Version:**                            1.0.4   
   - **OS Name:**                                     Ubuntu 24.04 LTS   
   - **OS Build:**                                    (null)   
   - **OS Type:**                                     64-bit   
   - **GNOME Version:**                               46   
   - **Windowing System:**                            X11   
   - **Kernel Version:**                              Linux 6.5.0-35-generic   
      
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