[ubuntu-studio-users] welcome to emergency mode - problem

[David King]

I solved it now.

I had an external USB3 HDD that stopped working, and it was referenced 
in fstab. So I edited the fstab file to put a # in front of its entry, 
and now Ubuntu Studio boots okay.

However, when booting into Linux Mint I did not get the emergency 
message even though fstab in that refers to the missing external drive. 
It gave me the option to skip mounting during boot. But Ubuntu Studio 
failed to do that.

David King



On 29/04/17 09:22, David King wrote:
> When trying to boot into Ubuntu Studio 16.04 today, I get the following
> error:
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> Welcome to emergency mode! After logging in, type "journalctl -xb" to view
> system logs, "systemctl reboot" to reboot, "systemctl default" or ^D to
> try again to boot into default mode.
> Press Enter for maintenance
> (or press Control-D to continue):
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> Nothing seems to work, it just keeps going back to that message. I can
> reboot and get the same again.
>
> What could be wrong? It was working last night, but today I get this. I
> can boot into Linux Mint on the same PC okay (as I have done now to
> write this email).
>
> Would reinstalling Ubuntu Studio over the top of the existing
> installation work, or is there something less drastic that can be done?
>
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> David King
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