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Ubuntu 16.10 reached EOL on July 20, 2017.

I cannot stress enough what the security risks are of running such an outdated version.

Backup your important data and install a more recent version.

What version of Ubuntu is installed and when did this happen? After an update? Did you change any system configurations?

Note that the repair summary has already attempted an fsck on the partitions, although unsuccessfully.

I would boot with a live USB, choose to Try Ubuntu and then open a terminal and try the boot...

Welcome to the forums :-)

Wired or wireless connection?

Do you happen to know what network cards are installed?

When you get to the login screen with your username. Before you enter your password, if you click on the icon at the bottom right of the screen you can change the environment.
Do you not have an...

If you plugged in an external drive, you need to unmount it before attempting to write any changes.

GParted will usually show a small key icon indicating the drive is mounted. If you right click...

Updated? From what?

Or is this a new install?

What exactly do you want to do and what are you having problems with.

More information will help us to help you.

From your output:

Partition Table: unknown

If you use GParted from a live USB you need to first add a new partition table before you can format and add partitions or filesystems.

I assume...

If you change your mind and want to enable CUPS at boot this is the command:


sudo systemctl enable cups

Can I suggest something?

Keep a text document with a list of commands you used with...

Press Enter and the virtual machine should reboot or you can restart it.

I have noticed, sometimes, that even after a restart the CD-ROM drive appears to be connected. Usually, unmounting it...

Glad to hear you finally got this sorted out.

To mark as Solved go to your first post >> Thread Tools >> Mark Solved.

Good luck with the new install!

Start by showing the output of this command:

sudo systemctl status cups

If the service is running, stop it like this:

sudo systemctl stop cups

If you want to prevent it from running at...

Manual Installation = Choose something else. They changed the language some time back (don't recall exactly when).

At this stage you need to click on the partition you wish to install to. Let''s...

I suspect this lies at the core of the problem.

When you told the installer to install alongside it did what it was designed to do. It looked at your Windows install and started shrinking it to...

I have an HP laptop, Pavilion G6, with i3 core and 8GB of RAM (recently upgraded from 4GB).

Ubuntu 24.04 installed in a VM in about 27 minutes.

Did you partition the drive before install or did...

Not sure where things are holding now but please run the boot info script from a live USB.

Choose to Try Xubuntu and then follow the instructions to create a summary report. It will offer to...

More tests:

Kubuntu 24.04 and Ubuntu 24.04: both created swap files. Kubuntu, like Lubuntu, offers the option during installation.

Since I am neither a developer nor a programmer I would not...

What version of Windows is currently installed? What version of Ubuntu do you want to install? Do you have backups of all important data?

Tested the following in VMs:

Lubuntu 24.04
Xubuntu 24.04

Chose the option to erase and use entire disk (no other special options chosen).

Lubuntu offered to create a swap file (as default)...

dragonfly41 is a well-respected member of the forums who has spent many years helping users.

Perhaps we misunderstood what you want to do, I know I had to read your post a couple of times and I am...

Was doing some testing recently with 3 different flavours:

Ubuntu 22.04
Ubuntu MATE 24.04
Xubuntu 22.04

I noticed that Ubuntu and Xubuntu did not create either swap partitions or swap files....

I would say that if you can boot and get to the desktop then it is probably nothing to worry about.

Try running apt update and apt upgrade to see if that resolves the issue.

Also check the logs...

When do you see this error? Does it prevent you from booting to the desktop?

Have you checked BIOS and/or unplugged any external USB devices to check if that resolves the issue?

Not exactly answering your question but allow me to please offer some advice.

If you are happy with the current LTS then you should stick with it for now.

24.04 has only just come out and there...

You have two options:

1. click No and ignore the Rufus message (may or may not still work)
2. select to write in dd mode (this is what I usually do and have never had an issue)