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barney2229
November 2nd, 2017, 10:07 AM
Hello, I currently have a non booting system. I have been getting an error regarding nvidia-340 since Ubuntu 16 upgrade. On upgrade to Ubuntu 17.10 the update had an error and said something about unusable state. The Ubuntu 17.10 did boot and boy does it look good. There was graphics issues so I figured by uninstalling I can reinstall nvidia.

Long story short I lost access to boot and am now booting from recovery.

I had an issue with access to the Internet but that's solved with lots of Google searches.

I have tried to purge nvidia-*, apt remove, tried using dkpg

Every time I get "errors were encountered while processing nvidia-331-uvm" or dependencies issue tried --fix-broken install

Tried force removing nvidia-331-uvm and nvidia-340

I'm all out of options and Google searches.

The computer starts to boot but gets stuck at "stopping user manager for uid"

I've tried lots of suggestions from Google, workarounds "fixes" and I'm still stuck

The graphics card is an old 8800gts

Thanks in advance any help is appreciated.
My biggest issue with Linux is the fact things just don't work always have to spend hours trying to fix something.