Stuck with "You are in emergency mode. "

Clapas

5/6/24, 10:05 PM

I cannot boot into my Ubuntu 22.04 machine (Dell OptiPlex 7050), and I repeatedly see the following message on a black screen:

You are in emergency mode. After logging in, type "journalctl -xb" to view system logs, "systemctl reboot", "systemctl default" or "exit"
to boot into default mode.
Press enter for maintenance
or press Control-D to continue.

I know I am not the first one complaining about this message, but I cannot found a solution.

I have also seen this:

Reloading system manager configuration
Starting default target
Failed to start default target: Transaction for graphical .target/start is destructive (emergency.target has 'start' job queued, but 'stop' is included in transaction).

But the culprit may be the file system. I have run:

journalctl -xb

...and found several lines with:

blk_update_request: I/O error, dev sda sector...
Buffer I/O error on dev sda1, logical block...
(...)
ata1: EH complete
systemd-fsck[864]: fsck failed with exit status 4.
systemd-fsck[864]: Running request emergency.target/start/start/replace
systemd-fsck@dev-disk-by ... Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
(...)
A start job for unit ureadahead-stop.service has finished successfully

The command completes with:

A start job for unit ...service has finished successfully.

Cannot find anything unusual in /etc/fstab.

How to get out of this situation?

5701

1 + 1

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fsck

22.04

zwets

5/6/24, 10:25 PM

`fsck failed with exit status 4` means it failed to correct errors on the filesystem. Looks like your `sda` disk has an issue.

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Ubuntu

Clapas

5/6/24, 10:31 PM

It looks now solved. Just with:

fsck -y /dev/sda1

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dmkonlinux

7/29/24, 7:13 AM

fsck -M (do not check mounted filesystems), then yes to "inode extent tree could be shorter optimise" and multiple "unattached inode connect to lost found" did it for me.

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