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Carl H
Asked: 2017-06-30 09:34:11 +0800 CST

Ubuntu GNOME 17.04 won't start

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I'm running Ubuntu GNOME 17.04 on VirtualBox with an image from osboxes.org

Updated last night. Today, it won't start. It hangs at various points during boot up, with messages such as

A start job is running for Daily apt activities ( 55s / no limit )

[ OK ] Created slice system-getty.slice


Started User Manager for UID 120
Stopping User Manager for UID 120
Stopped User Manager for UID 120
Removed slice User Slice of gdm

What's the best way to proceed? Obviously I could just delete the VM and create another but it could well just do the same again.

Heynnema suggested booting from a live CD and running fsck

$ sudo fsck /dev/sda
fsck from util-linux 2.27.1
e2fsck 1.42.13 (17-May-2015)
ext2fs_open2: Bad magic number in super-block
fsck.ext2: Superblock invalid, trying backup blocks...
fsck.ext2: Bad magic number in super-block while trying to open /dev/sda

The superblock could not be read or does not describe a valid ext2/ext3/ext4
filesystem.  If the device is valid and it really contains an ext2/ext3/ext4
filesystem (and not swap or ufs or something else), then the superblock
is corrupt, and you might try running e2fsck with an alternate superblock:
    e2fsck -b 8193 <device>
 or
    e2fsck -b 32768 <device>

Edit 2

carl@osboxes:~$ dpkg -l *virtualbox* | grep ii
carl@osboxes:~$

Does not return anything, but ... 

carl@osboxes:~$ dpkg -l *virtualbox* 
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name           Version      Architecture Description
+++-==============-============-============-=================================
un  virtualbox-gue <none>       <none>       (no description available)
un  virtualbox-gue <none>       <none>       (no description available)
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