Public bug reported:
My OS seems to be, for lack of a better way of putting it,
"disintegrating." Every ten minutes, something else "fails." I am
trying to do a clean install of 18.04.2, despite the fact that I was
running 18.10, but I cannot get my system to boot from USB and I do not
have blank DVDs to make a bootable one. I have tried F12, F10, F2 and
every combination thereof over the last several hours and, occasionally
I get a long flurry of tiny white print on a black screen with the word
"failed" appearing frequently but it's too fast for me to read. When it
comes to a stop, it is prompting me to enter my p/w. When I do, the
system boots more or less as normal. However, when I try to update or
upgrade I get a message that some file or other is "badly corrupted" or
something like that and I must use the RESUME something to get it to do
something or other. I have only been only Linux for less than 2 weeks
and I haven't the faintest idea what is going on. I really need help. I
have backed up everything and just want to completely reinstall from the
ground up but cannot.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.10
Package: ubuntu-release-upgrader-core 1:18.10.11.5
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.18.0-17.18-generic 4.18.20
Uname: Linux 4.18.0-17-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.10-0ubuntu13.2
Architecture: amd64
CrashDB: ubuntu
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Fri Mar 22 19:41:03 2019
InstallationDate: Installed on 2019-02-23 (27 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Release amd64 (20190210)
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
PATH=(custom, no user)
XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: ubuntu-release-upgrader
Symptom: ubuntu-release-upgrader
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to cosmic on 2019-03-14 (8 days ago)
VarLogDistupgradeTermlog:
modified.conffile..etc.default.apport:
# set this to 0 to disable apport, or to 1 to enable it
# you can temporarily override this with
# sudo service apport start force_start=1
enabled=0
mtime.conffile..etc.default.apport: 2019-03-08T05:25:07.116686
** Affects: ubuntu-release-upgrader (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: amd64 apport-bug cosmic dist-upgrade
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Unable to reinstall Ubuntu. Want to downgrade to 18.04.2
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