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I am unable to enter anything at the login screen it just freezes directly after the page shows. The cursor inside the login form blinks about 10 times then it stops. I cant move the mouse or use the keyboard.

I already entered the secure mode and triggered update, upgrade and dist-upgrade via the root shell it made no difference.

I appreciate any help.

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We were able to solve it by starting the shell in secure mode and executing the following commands.

  apt-get update 
  apt-get install xserver-xorg-input-all
  apt-get install ubuntu-desktop
  apt-get install ubuntu-minimal
  apt-get install xorg xserver-xorg
  apt-get install xserver-xorg-input-evdev    //I think this packet was the problem
  apt-get install xserver-xorg-video-vmware

  reboot
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Thank you, this solved my exact problem. I was trying to fix problems with my video and followed this askubuntu.com/questions/763672/… and after reboot got the same problem as you (don't know if it was because of what I did or not). I installed xserver-xorg-input-all which pulled in xserver-xorg-input-evdev and now it works again. – Kayaman Aug 22 '17 at 19:47
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I tried everything, for weeks, all day long. I finally went to Driver Manager and changed my video driver to NVIDIA, and that fixed it.

Ironically, NVIDIA was the recommended setting. No idea why that wasn't chosen. It wasn't me - Linux set that.

Anyway, let me know. YMMV.

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