After security updates PC would not boot up to login

[Mark Seals]

I was prompted by the update manager to perform some updates. I didn't look closely at them as they looked like regular packages and so I performed the update. After it completed I was prompted again by update manager and this time it was security updates. I performed that update, and once it was done it asked to reboot. I rebooted my system and it came up to a splash screen with a spinning wheel with Ubuntu at the bottom. I went for an hour walk and came back and it was still as the same screen. I had to boot up into the Grub menu and selected the 5.4 kernel and it came up. Prior to this I was on the 5.5 kernel.

release: 20.04

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.04
Package: ubuntu-release-upgrader-core 1:20.04.19
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.4.0-31.35-generic 5.4.34
Uname: Linux 5.4.0-31-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu27
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: skip
CrashDB: ubuntu
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Thu May 21 09:36:35 2020
InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-12-12 (891 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 17.10 "Artful Aardvark" - Release amd64 (20171018)
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: ubuntu-release-upgrader
Symptom: dist-upgrade
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
VarLogDistupgradeTermlog: