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Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

I suddenly had a problem booting into Ubuntu.

A start job is running for Hold unt...finishes up (32min 30s / no limit)

I'm not 100% sure it is snappy but I don't know what else it could be. The messages are displayed as Started Snappy daemon Stopped Snappy daemon over and over again.

Pressing cntl + shift + f1, f2 doesn't seem to do anything.

I've searched around but haven't found anything definitive as to how to work on it. I'd love any help.

Edit: I dual boot with windows 10 - fast startup is disabled. I've had this setup for more than six months without issues. I also uninstalled Ext2 File Manager from Windows because it was causing superblock errors. After I used fsck the errors would be fixed and I could boot into Ubuntu without issue.

Here is a photo of the screen from about 2 minutes. Screen photo of boot screen

Zeb Griffin
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Lets check your filesystem first...

  • boot to a Ubuntu Live DVD/USB
  • open a terminal window
  • type sudo fdisk -l
  • identify the /dev/XXXX device name for your "Linux Filesystem"
  • type sudo fsck -f /dev/XXXX # replacing XXXX with the number you found earlier
  • repeat the fsck command if there were errors
  • type reboot

Update #1:

The user had a Windows driver that allowed ext2 access to the Linux/Ubuntu file system. Guaranteed to corrupt them. Uninstalled it. fsck now runs clean.

heynnema
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