I followed steps from this guide to try to install Cast to TV. When I executed the step "by restarting Gnome Shell (using Xorg: press Alt + F2, type r, and press Enter" things went bad. I think I turned the laptop off using the power button, then could not turn it back on. When I tried to re-install the same version of Ubuntu from a Live USB without losing my files, the installer said no existing operating system was found.
I used Ubuntu 19.10 on a Dell XPS laptop.
Additionally I tried to recover my files from the encrypted hard drive on my laptop through a Live USB but needed my mount passphrase (to access the encrypted hard drive), which seems to be different from my password, which I enter upon start-up every time.
Following this guide, I tried to recover my passphrase, but both commands ecryptfs-unwrap-passphrase and sudo ecryptfs-recover-private didn't give any reaction.
Any help in recovering my files or recovering my ubuntu version are highly appreciated! Or if anyone knows what I might have done with the command "Alt + F2"; "r"; "Enter", that might help, too.
EDIT: I managed to rescue my files from a Live USB:
1) had to mount my corrupted hard drive using only password, no mount passphrase
2) running sudo nautilus
3) copying all my files to an external hard drive in the sudo nautilus window
Thanks for your interest and your help, community!
James
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