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I'm an amateur Linux user, so excuse my ignorance.

After upgrading to 15.04, the screen hangs on the Ubuntu loading image and then finally goes to a black screen with the following:

[ 1.595012] ACPI PCC probe failed.
Starting version 219.
Welcome to emergency mode
...

If I press on the down arrow during the Ubuntu loading image screen I get a long list of actions with an [OK] on the left but one with a [FAILED]. The [FAILED] one says this:

Failed to activate swap Swap Partition.
See "systemctl status dev-sda7.swap" for details.

At at the bottom of the black screen it says:

A start job is running for dev-disk-by\x2 duuid-ec5ce .... [string of letters and numbers].device

The above sentence has a timer after it which counts to 1 min 30 seconds and then goes to the screen above which starts with 

[1.595012]...

I have all my pictures and work stored on this laptop so I need to find a way to boot up!

edit 26.05.2015
Unfortunately none of the proposed solutions have worked. The IT support company that supports the business I work for got to the point of accessing the data but the home folder is encrypted and I don't have the key (which, sillily, is saved on my desktop). Data recovery specialists I called said they can't help, so it looks like I'll be losing the last few months of data on my laptop including photos of my 5 month old girl.

Zanna
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Dan Richardson
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I had some similar errors with my system, and I found that it was an error with some fstab entries (external drives that were no longer physically connected). I just commented them out and the system booted as usual.

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