I recently did a nondescript update of software in 16.10 (not an upgrade, have had 16.10 working fine for quite some time now). It asked to reboot, and so I did. After rebooting, it showed a low-res login screen (I had configured my system to not ask for login). I use a wireless keyboard, and have no wired keyboard as an option. The computer does not respond to input from the wireless keyboard, even though it did before the reboot. I can use the on-screen keyboard (my wireless mouse still works fine, oddly enough), but the keyboard won't allow me to do a Ctrl-Alt-F3. If I try to log into the system, it just kicks me back to the login page. Same if I try to start a guest session.
So, in summary:
Because this update was a normal, every-day update, I did not take any backups, as I would before performing an upgrade. Because of this, I am loathe to do a reinstall of the OS, as there is data that I would lose in that process. However, I have no idea what other options I have.
I am not 100% sure what was updated that caused this issue, but I do remember that it was a kernel upgrade (again, fairly nondescript, goes through all the time without any problem whatsoever - except for this time, apparently). I do not know to which version the kernel was upgraded, but I was prompted for it yesterday morning (3/28), so presumably a version that was new in that time frame.
I should also note that some time ago, while doing another normal-looking update, it said there was an issue and needed to do a "partial upgrade", which seemed odd for it being a run-of-the-mill update, not an upgrade.
So after some experimentation, here was what finally worked for me:
F11 to get to the boot menu and boot from the USB drive. Booting the normal OS into recovery mode did not work and did not help.sudo -i), I was able to copy and preserve the files I needed backed upCollected from the Internet
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