after using and then closing opera I could not re-enter opera again because an error message said I did not have user privileges also I could not get into thunderbird to, so I shut down and rebooted thinking it would fix it, but it would not reboot after many tries, it kept coming up with errors, so I think I will reinstall 16.04 and lose all my data, very annoying, but I have a backup on external hdd.
Can I reinstall 17.10 without losing data please. Thankyou
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: ubiquity 2.21.63
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-21.37-generic 4.4.6
Uname: Linux 4.4.0-21-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
CasperVersion: 1.376
Date: Mon Feb 5 16:46:24 2018
InstallCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/casper/vmlinuz.efi file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu.seed boot=casper quiet splash ---
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 16.04 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release amd64 (20160420.1)
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=en_NZ.UTF-8
PATH=(custom, no user)
LANG=en_NZ.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: ubiquity
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
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