I've been using linux for a year or two now (so pretty new user), and I fiercely love linux and never want to use and other OS again (btw hi guys, this is my first post). I am still however a noob so please bear with me. I've read a lot of documentation for my problem and tried to fix it but I'm stuck.. The problem I'm having is with Debian 9 stretch installed on a partition I really love using

So I updated my system with apt-get update or some such command and then the computer told me I needed to reboot (because of something with my new nvidia drivers) I typed systemctl reboot (as I had learned online to do after such an update) and when I booted back into my system while the system was started up it read

[FAILED] Failed to start Load Kernel Modules
See 'systemctl status systemd-modules-load.service' for details

and a white screen pops up after that reads:

"Oh no! something has gone wrong.
A problem has occurred and the system can't recover
Please log out and try again"

I think what happened is that I interrupted the update somehow because otherwise everything should work. It seemed like the terminal was done with the update... but when I typed systemctl reboot it said: "stopping job" or something like that in red letters. That's why I fear I interrupted a process to soon...

I rebooted in recovery mode as I read I should do online and tried to use the following commands in cli like I read online for my problem. but when I ran the first (apt-get update), it read "Failed to fetch http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/stretch/InRelease" and a bunch of other "failed to fetch" errors and "Temporary failure resolving 'ftp.us.debian.org'" errors

apt-get update


dpkg --configure -a


apt-get dist-upgrade


apt-get -f install



Next I figured the reason none of these commands worked is because I hadn't set up my ethernet connectivity in recovery mode so I tried to do that and I feel like I maybe got it working but still it gives me the same messages about "failure to fetch" when I try to enter any of the above commands...

Please guys any help with resolving this problem would be mighty helpful.
That's the partition I like writing python on and everything on it is just the way I like. Thanks in advance for the help I'm willing to post photos if that helps.


Arct1c_fox

Unsolicited advice: I hope that you learned the lesson that you should not run "some such command". When you run a command, ensure that you run it correctly and put in some effort to gain a basic understanding of what the command does and what it's for.
This looks like a networking failure. You either have no network at all, or your name resolution (the mapping of "us.debian.org" to an IP address) is not working.

To check basic connctivity to the internet:
8.8.8.8 is the IP address of Google's name resolution service.

If that fails, find out if your computer has an IP address and if not, find out why. On Debian, networking is configured in /etc/network/interfaces, and the current IP address can be seen with the command ip address.

If that succeeds, check the content of /etc/resolv.conf. It should have a line similar to "nameserver 8.8.8.8" (probably a different IP address). If not, add this line and try updating again.

Also find web pages about Debian network troubleshooting.