Monday, May 29, 2017

14.04 - initctl: event failed after "login: *Starting CPU ..."

I am currently running Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and I recall the last thing i tried doing in terminal was to attempt removing packettracer which failed to start on my system. I followed the guide found in
How to uninstall PacketTracer

Sad thing is, after this the OS started freezing up and so I decided to reboot and all hell broke loose. The normal boot would get stuck with the blinker at the top left corner of the screen (not blinking). I tried booting with Advaned options and chose recovery mode. That's when it reported




Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS nana-qhuacy-HP-Stream tty1
nana-qhuacy-HP-Stream login: *Starting CPU interrupts balancing daemon [OK]
initctl: Event failed
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I've tried both answers in

How to repair installation, accidentally deleted /sbin/initctl
The second answer came close to working but also reported an error.

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