If you can intercept boot ( press a key to get to the grub menu or whatever… I haven’t used Ubuntu in a while so maybe it’s not so simple anymore) you may be able to enter rescue / single-user mode and let apt complete the changes and then revert them.
A clean reinstall may be easier depending on how much you’ve changed on the system. Easier isn’t always better, fix this and you’ll know how to do it again in the future.
Something about a human grooming a kidnapped muppet is disturbing to me. I think just make Miss Piggy the beast and Kermit the beauty. Their relationship is already a bit rapey.
Uh… what are you on about? She’s not exactly kidnapped or groomed in the original Disney movie…
She’s jailed for trespassing, and she grooms him in to not being an angry hateful troll… Not all “grooming” is bad, ffs. Get the entire overarching story correct before you complain about something very, very dumb and wrong…
Surely there are scammers who have seen people posting shit like this, and offering to “help” people claim this magic money.
“Yeah just need your SSN, full name and address, and I will do all the paperwork for you! You tell me how much you want to take from your “national debt owed to you”, and I will do all the work with the bank on your behalf”
I hate you. Today I discovered a server that appeared to be in working order was actually just hanging on by a thread. The crash when the crowdstrike driver caused the blue screen of death must have corrupted some of the network configuration in the registry. When I couldnt make the failover cluster live migrate to or from that server I ejected it from the cluster and rebooted it, only it never came back up 😥
Now all my servers are suspect until I can verify that they are healthy.
In general, I don’t think the concept of a configuration database is bad - at least not inherently moreso than every application putting its own configuration file(s) in whichever format it wants somewhere on the filesystem.
Whether the window registry is a good implementation of this concept is surely debatable.
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