Hello, I was installing someone else's build environment on my ubuntu 20.04 machine via a bashscript, but apparently something went screwy and my computer now wont display the login screen. It boots straight to the recovery terminal. It boots up into the terminal, says:
"psmouse serio1: synaptics: unable to query device: -71" and asks for my login. I am able to log in, but I'm not sure how to ge the GUI back.
I have seen some suggestions to reinstall the unity desktop with:
sudo apt install ubuntu-unity-desktop
Unfortunately, I cannot install this (or anything) as the internet is also broken, and I'm not sure how to get it back. I have an ethernet connection (I figure this will be easier than wifi), but no internet access. I tried to turn on the ethernet with:
sudo ifconfig enp60s0 up, but to no avail.
ifconfig -a gives:
enp60s0: flags=409<BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
ether <mac address> txqueuelen 1000 (ethernet)
RX packets 92 bytes 6174
RX errors 0
TX packets 25 bytes 2969
TX errors 0
but no ip address.
I am unable to ping google.com (get "temporary failure in name resolution"), or 8.8.8.8 (get "network is unreachable")
"ip link" gives:
2: enp60s0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc mq state UP mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000
link/ether <mac address> ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
Any idea how to get the GUI and/or the internet back?
I am running kernel 5.9.10-0509210-generic
Thanks!
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