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I had several installations of python on my ubuntu 18.04 system and tried to uninstall all necessary ones and just properly reinstall python3.6

So i deleted all folders that were listed under whereis python, probably that was a bad idea.

Now if I run sudo apt-get install python3.6 it returns

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
python3.6 is already the newest version (3.6.5-3).
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 4 not upgraded.
4 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
Setting up python3.6-minimal (3.6.5-3) ...
Could not find platform independent libraries <prefix>
Consider setting $PYTHONHOME to <prefix>[:<exec_prefix>]
Fatal Python error: Py_Initialize: Unable to get the locale encoding
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'encodings'

Current thread 0x00007f814f83c740 (most recent call first):
Aborted
dpkg: error processing package python3.6-minimal (--configure):
 installed python3.6-minimal package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 134
Setting up python-minimal (2.7.15~rc1-1) ...
/var/lib/dpkg/info/python-minimal.postinst: 4: /var/lib/dpkg/info/python-minimal.postinst: python2.7: not found
dpkg: error processing package python-minimal (--configure):
 installed python-minimal package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 127
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of python3.6:
 python3.6 depends on python3.6-minimal (= 3.6.5-3); however:
  Package python3.6-minimal is not configured yet.

dpkg: error processing package python3.6 (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of python3.6-dev:
 python3.6-dev depends on python3.6 (= 3.6.5-3); however:
  Package python3.6 is not configured yet.

dpkg: error processing package python3.6-dev (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
 python3.6-minimal
 python-minimal
 python3.6
 python3.6-dev
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

I then tried to update the minimal package with sudo apt-get install -f --reinstall python3.6-minimal but that returns

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 4 not upgraded.
4 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
E: Internal Error, No file name for python3.6-minimal:amd64

I'm not really an experienced linux user, so I'm quite stuck here. Does someone have an idea how I can fix my python installation?

I found similar topics regarding slow kernel boot but my problem is that my system takes 3 minutes to load the userspace

systemd-analyze gives the following output

Startup finished in 4.247s (kernel) + 3min 743ms (userspace = 3min 4.991s
graphical.target reacher after 1min 35.812s in userspace

Is there a way to identify what exactly is taking so much time? I'm running Xubuntu 18.04 in a VirtualBox and I think the problem started after I enlarged my partition (including a recreation of the swap partition).

edit: Output of the systemd-analyze critical-chain

graphical.target @1min 35.812s
└─multi-user.target @1min 35.812s
  └─docker.service @1min 32.815s +2.996s
    └─network-online.target @1min 32.814s
      └─NetworkManager-wait-online.service @1min 31.863s +951ms
        └─NetworkManager.service @1min 31.075s +784ms
          └─dbus.service @1min 30.640s
            └─basic.target @1min 30.529s
              └─sockets.target @1min 30.529s
                └─docker.socket @1min 30.498s +30ms
                  └─sysinit.target @1min 30.493s
                    └─apparmor.service @979ms +695ms
                      └─local-fs.target @947ms
                        └─media-aj-VBox_GAs_5.2.81.mount @1min 39.649s
                          └─clean-mount-point@media-aj-VBox_GAs_5.2.81.service @
                            └─system-clean\x2dmount\x2dpoint.slice @1min 39.668s
                              └─system.slice @272ms
                                └─-.slice @266ms