I'm on Ubuntu 22.04.01 LTS.
There are similar questions, but the poster was already much further along before posting and I don't know how to get to their initial step.
What's happening?
When I turn on my computer it boots to emergency mode. I was able to print the journal and have included photos further down.
There are options to go to recovery mode. When I'm in recovery mode I can't move down the menu, but am able to write into a command line.
How did this happen?
An external HD suddenly wouldn't mount. It's NTFS and I concluded there was some read/write issue. Therefore I found some code online. After entering this code I rebooted. This is when the issues started. My OS is on an internal drive and I'm fairly sure its file system is fuse.
This is the code I entered. The code executed.
sudo apt-get purge ntfsprogs
sudo apt-get purge ntfs-3g
sudo apt-get install ntfs-3g
Examples of errors
I've photographed some of the journal. If there's a better way please let me know.
- These are images of journal output that have coloured lines: https://postimg.cc/gallery/0mhcKJP
- And here are images of white-coloured lines of code: https://postimg.cc/gallery/z84GL6n
I don't understand how an NTFS.
EDIT 1:
It wouldn't let me boot into recovery mode unless the external HD was connected. Weird. As said previously my OS is on an internal.
EDIT 2:
Tried
fsck /dev/nvme0n1p2
Output was
fsck from util-linux 2.37.2
e2fsck 1.46.5 (30-Dec-2021)
/dev/nvme0n1p2 is mounted.
e2fsck: cannot continue, aborting
EDIT 3:
Tried
fsck -nf /dev/nvme0n1p2
The output is here: https://postimg.cc/Th9Hx2vM
I then tried to unmount the drive but it said 'target is busy.'
Execute the following code by replacing diskname with the partition in which your home is installed
From your uploaded images
nvme0n1p2
is where your file systems likely exists so you could run;I got the answer from users in another forum. Answer is here: https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-newbie-8/ubuntu-only-boots-to-emergency-mode-4175716928/