22.04 (upgrade from 21.10) on Lenovo x201 won't make it to graphical mode

First, thank you for answering! I mean it! :heart_eyes:

Function keys were (unfortunately) used in a correct way, but thatā€™s very good hint for owners of newer devices. Iā€™ve been there when I had to use someone elsesā€™ newer machine :wink:

Esc ā†’ Advanced ā†’ root was wonderful! This part should be pinned and added to inital Lenny advice. You wrote it just purrfectly :smirk_cat:.

Then I tried neofetch (another command I learned) and it says I have Memory 7747 MiB so I dare to not create this swap file.
But this helped me to get to text mode with init 3 magic (again, what I rememeber)ā€¦ and now I had a chance to run those commands recommended by Lenny.

BUT I also did snap remove skype. It made the machine at least start properly.
And now it fails when I want to start Chrome browserā€¦ :face_holding_back_tears:

With your trick I tried to run it with the older 5.13.40-generic kernel, but it didnā€™t help either.

Your trick gave me a chance to at least save files from my hard drive before I format the machine and reinstall, butā€¦

ā€¦once again I am very grateful for that Esc recovery though.

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