Plasma crashes on boot following 4.13.0-26 kernel upgrad

[Rob M]

Unable to start system, Plasma crashes on boot, no splash screen shown, recovery mode dpkg repair indicates needed repair of kunbuntu-desktop but can not fetch package from repository

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: linux-image-4.13.0-26-generic 4.13.0-26.29~16.04.2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.13.0-26.29~16.04.2-generic 4.13.13
Uname: Linux 4.13.0-26-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.15
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Jan 11 07:59:44 2018
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-10-23 (79 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 16.04.3 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release amd64 (20170801)
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=linux
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: linux-hwe
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Po-Hsu Lin (cypressyew)]

I will close this as 4.13 is not supported anymore.

Please feel free to open a new bug report if you have encounter this again.