I have a Dell Laptop, and I have a passphrase to startup my Ubuntu machine. After I enter the passphrase, it seems to sit at the loading Ubuntu screen. I reboot, and it will sometimes do the same thing, or it will let me login.

Hi,

there are likely some logs showing what happened. You can also probably see the messages at boot time while you system appears to be hanging. To do so you need to switch from the graphical loading screen (plymouth) by pressing a key - I think the Home key. So, next time it does this, try pressing Home and see if there is are messages explaining what is happening.

Evo2.

P.S. I don't run Ubuntu so am not completely sure if Home is the correct key, but that is how it is set up on Debian. My google fu was not good enough to confirm that it is the same for Ubuntu.

Here's a tutorial on Ubuntu log files. https://tutorials.ubuntu.com/tutoria...ring-log-files

You might also look in /var/log. I believe Ubuntu includes rsyslog, which ports SystemD logs to the traditional format. In /var/log, I'd start with syslog and Xorg.0.log.

This is a shot in the dark, but what graphics card is in this machine?