Cannot boot after distro upgrade
Hello,
After upgrading the old laptop from jessie to strech, it worked well for
few days (although more slowly than it was with jessie). But after last
proper shutdown, it does not boot anymore. In fact, it starts to boot
until it comes to a point where it says:
"You are in 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.
Cannot open access to console, the root account is locked.
See sulogin(8) man page for more details.
Press Enter to continue."
Ok, when I press Enter it says:
"Checking in progress on 2 disks (0.0% complete)"
... it takes 1-2 seconds .. while it changes to:
"Checking in progress on 1 disk (11.0% complete)"
... and returns back to the first message:
"You are in 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.
Cannot open access to console, the root account is locked.
See sulogin(8) man page for more details.
Press Enter to continue."
... and further pressing Enter seems to go nowhere and repeat endlessly.
Ctrl-Alt-F* does not open any new console. This one with error doesn't
accept anything but Enter.
I do not have any rescue/emergency media because it was an old
installation, started several years ago with squeeze, and upgraded over
time to wheezy, jessie, ..
Any idea what to do? Thanks.
Misko
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