After I added a new drive and made some partitions, on my next boot I got:
[ 1.920835]
[ 4.999121] hid-generic 003:0D8C:005.0006: No inputs registered, leaving
[ 5.947015] snd_hda_intel 0000:00:1f.3: no codecs found!
You are in emergency mode. After logging in, type "journalctl -xb" to view system logs,
"systemctl reboot" to reboot, "systemctl default" or "exit" to boot into default mode.
Press Enter for maintenance
(or press Control-D to continue):
Super, my machine won't boot. I try pressing Control-D (as I did yesterday without issue) and I get:
Reloading system manager configuration
Starting default target
Failed to start default target: Transaction or graphical.target/start is destructive (emergency.target has 'start' job queued, but 'stop' is included in transaction).
It hangs there (with a blinking cursor) so I hard reset. Same prompt, I try Control+D again. It just loops:
Reloading system manager configuration
Starting default target
You are in emergency mode. After logging in, type "journalctl -xb" to view system logs,
"systemctl reboot" to reboot, "systemctl default" or "exit" to boot into default mode.
Press Enter for maintenance
(or press Control-D to continue):
So I did some web searching which led me here, and I got the impression from posts like these:
Stuck in emergency mode and nothing works?
... and another I can't find that suggested I try to fix /etc/fstab and/or run fsck. Not really sure if my fstab needs fixing, but here it is:
LABEL=Torrents /home/username/Videos/Torrents defaults 0 0 0
#
# Use 'blkid' to print the universally unique identifier for a
# device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name devices
# that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
/dev/mapper/vgkubuntu-root / ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 1
# /boot/efi was on /dev/nvme0n1p1 during installation
UUID=00A5-98A1 /boot/efi vfat umask=0077 0 1
/dev/mapper/vgkubuntu-swap_1 none swap sw 0 0
UUID=24ef61db-8bf1-47cd-90b0-1cb9c62c62a8 /media/username/Steam ext4 relatime 0 2
Running fsck in live (to get around having to unmount the partition ubuntu was running from) didn't seem to get anywhere, as it claimed I had a dirty bit, which I told it to fix, and it still won't boot.
For the record I did all of my drive mounting/partitioning via KDE Partition Manager, and did exactly zero fstab editing by hand.
Hardware:
CPU - I5 13600K Storage - CT1000P3SSD8 (/dev/nvme0n1) - SSDPEKNW010T8 (/dev/nvme1n1) - WD80EAZZ-00BKLB0 (/dev/sda)
Software:
Kubuntu LTS 22.04.?
