jolphil Posted March 27, 2018 Share Posted March 27, 2018 (edited) Just had an scary incident with my Mint 18.1. Been rolling along for months with no problems until just a couple of days ago.There was an update and one of the items updated was virtualbox( which in this system I never used) along with updating some libs. The next day i booted up and it went to the login screen,typed my password in and a pop up showed" initctl: unable to connect to Upstart" Followed with something like " no syndaemon process found" I googled it and found that is is somewhat common but with various reasons for it in the first place. I found in Mint forums with someone else who had a similar problem. His way to solve it was to ctl-alt F2 and log in and purge virtualbox guest files,then purge virtualbox itself. I will not try to quote the code as I am not really qualified,and do not want to cause someone damage to their system. I only want to alert users to my problem in case they have a similar incident. Long story short I'm back in my beloved 18.1 jolphil Edit: I just booted up a second computer with 18.1 and the update from Mint was to remove virtualbox guest and virtualbox. This may be some kind of problem. Edited March 27, 2018 by jolphil Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
securitybreach Posted March 28, 2018 Share Posted March 28, 2018 Odd but at least you were able to resolve it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raymac46 Posted March 29, 2018 Share Posted March 29, 2018 I had a similar issue after an LM update yesterday. I logged in as root on the console (Ctrl-Alt-F2) ran apt update, apt dist-upgrade, rebooted and the problem went away. I think some modules needed to get rebuilt. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raymac46 Posted March 29, 2018 Share Posted March 29, 2018 https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=47&t=266431 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jolphil Posted March 30, 2018 Author Share Posted March 30, 2018 raymac46: Wow, looks like this was a serious update failure to bork that many Mint boxes as well as Ubuntu's and others too. At least it was documented well enough even for me to muddle thru.. jolphil PS Thats where I got the hint as to what was wrong.Some other suggestions on other websites was to re install. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raymac46 Posted March 30, 2018 Share Posted March 30, 2018 Yes Linux Mint is usually quite stable. There are often problems with VirtualBox though. At least this one was fixable without a reinstall. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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