"emergency mode"

[copper holly]

Turned on my machine and this message pop up. What should I do?

[cedar shadow]

did this happen randomly, and your system was working normally before or is this freshly installed and first boot?

[copper holly]

Was working normally

Did I just brick my system?

[cedar shadow]

last time I had that happen it said "Congratulations, you probably just broke your system" and it broke my system

here it says something else, so perchance not

[copper holly]

Oh god lord... Anyone can help me I don't know what to do

[cedar shadow]

do you have timeshift set up?

[copper holly]

I was about to do it today..

If anything goes wrong will I just loose my main boot drive and the rest of my hard drives will be spared or everything will die

Cause if former it should be fine as I don't have much

I put most of my stuff in other hard drives

[chilly flare]

the boot drive

see if u can get to a prompt, after that message, the log in, and run the journalctl command exactly as it mentions

[cedar shadow]

do you have a live usb?

[chilly flare]

would narrow it down

[copper holly]

I really am sorry could you tell me how do I do this?

[copper holly]

I think I still have my Linux mint installation thumbdrive

[cedar shadow]

press enter, you'll get a command line, enter journalctl -xb

[chilly flare]

press enter or ctrl-d til u get a log-in blackscreen prompt

[copper holly]

Like this?

[chilly flare]

not sure atm. nothing seems alarming there

did u recently allow a system update?

[cedar shadow]

looks like a bunch of gibberish and alien words to me

[chilly flare]

one which involved "linux-image" ?

[copper holly]

Let me try to recount the last thing I did

It was not an update. I think I was formatting another drive

Cause it won't automount when I boot up the machine

[chilly flare]

alright

is that drive disconnected now?

[copper holly]

You mean unplugging it? Should I do it now?

If so I haven't disconnect it

[chilly flare]

was it just a data drive?

[copper holly]

Yeah it contains just my artwork

A HDD sata

[chilly flare]

try booting live first

[copper holly]

How should I do that

[chilly flare]

use the mint installer usb

[copper holly]

Ok I shut down the PC first and then plug the USB in then turn it on?

[chilly flare]

n hit ur boot menu key

[copper holly]

Ok hang on

[copper holly]

Ok I'm in bios. Let me see if I can get the USB to boot up

[copper holly]

Alright I made it. What should I do

[chilly flare]

top one

just wanna check your disks and the fstab file in the install.

[copper holly]

Ok I'm in what should I do

[chilly flare]

open menu, type disks

then show the boot drive

[copper holly]

This is the hard drive I was dealing with before everything went wrong

Here is boot drive

[chilly flare]

k

[copper holly]

I will wait for further instructions

[chilly flare]

copy this exactly in terminal, then show , for reference:
lsblk -o NAME,TYPE,MODEL,LABEL,SIZE,FSSIZE,FSTYPE,FSUSED,MOUNTPOINT

all one line, mind where spaces are

[copper holly]

Is this alr?

[chilly flare]

sure is. press enter

make the window about an inch wider, then show

[chilly flare]

good, now do sudo blkid

[copper holly]

(feel free to reply ping me. I respond faster that's ay)

[chilly flare]

ok go back to this exact thing, but lick partition 2 of it, then the play button below to mount. then click the blue link that appears.

then in the file manager that shows up, press ctrl-L and type /etc <enter>

[copper holly]

<enter> as in I type enter or press enter

[chilly flare]

then type fst and open the fstab file and stretch it wide enough to show all on indivdual lines, no line wrap

[chilly flare]

press

or simply double-click the etc folder

[copper holly]

Located but it doesent seem to have a lot

[chilly flare]

wrong one. close that

click the blue link i mentioned

then u'll be in the actual install's drive/partition

[copper holly]

Ok I clicked on the blue link and now searching

This looks like the only fst thing in etc

[chilly flare]

yup let's have a look

[copper holly]

Which showed this

Oh wait

I stand corrected. My apologies

Ah I can see it. The drive name Arts and Linux media at the very bottom

[chilly flare]

1D79

[copper holly]

Pardon?

[chilly flare]

after u reformatted it the uuid is 1bed2

[copper holly]

Can it be undone?

[chilly flare]

yeah close that long fstab file

open it as root

(go back to /etc folder from the root, right click and choose 'open as root' , then double click the fstab file in the root file manager that comes up

[copper holly]

Is this correct?

[chilly flare]

yes, go to the line with the Arts drive, and put a # sign in front

then save it.

[copper holly]

Right here?

[chilly flare]

sorry, the first line having 'Art ' just a bit above that

[chilly flare]

this one, which is no longer existent.

[copper holly]

Here?

[chilly flare]

the one ending in 1bed2 take the # sign away

yep save it now

then do a quick filesystem error check

[copper holly]

Everything is good before I save?

Save with this yes?

[chilly flare]

yep save it

[copper holly]

Alr saved. How shall we proceed with this

[chilly flare]

then go back here. select pt'n 2, and hit the stop button (unmount p2)

then sudo fsck /dev/nvme0n1p2

[chilly flare]

just to be safe.. but i think the error was from the automounting of that that ghost partition u reformatted n left behind

yeah hit it

[chilly flare]

ok try booting normally now

[copper holly]

Potentially. I really REALLY have a lot to learn. I am not even fully done with a few things either. Like I think some windows boot drive might still be in my hard drive even tho I gave it a wipe already and stuff cuz every time I start it up it will ask if I wanna go to windows boot

[copper holly]

Ok understood. I will unplug the usb

[chilly flare]

yeah when u mess around with partitions, u gotta remember that they create new UUID's on creation. so u gotta edit fstab if u had any on auto-mount from DISKS app

[chilly flare]

that's an old UEFI entry. i'd just leave it unless u have NO windows OS right now but u do so

[copper holly]

Oh dear.

[chilly flare]

hmm

back to scratch

[copper holly]

Where we go from ere

[chilly flare]

ok when u reboot this time, just pause it on the Grub screen

or choose Advance options for linux mint

then what do u see ?

[hollow dock]

this is fairly interesting to see people fix errors i have no clue how to fix

[copper holly]

Advance options

[copper holly]

My appreciation for the Linux community keeps on growing.

[hollow dock]

the linux community carries everyone, i once broke my bios and some guy online carried me for 5 hours to repair it

[chilly flare]

select the kernel ending in -91 and then press F10 as it says to boot it . dont pick recovery

...

[copper holly]

Oh sorry

[chilly flare]

might be that top thing

[hollow dock]

what partion is your boot on?

[hollow dock]

i think i understood whats wrong

[copper holly]

It is on a 1tb m.2 ssd. It takes up the whole thing

[chilly flare]

it's mostly loading so , it's not like it has no clue where linux is

[hollow dock]

true

maybe when you wanted to automount the system made an error and mounted the wrong thing to your partition

[chilly flare]

u can go back and comment out that Games drive or whatever line pertains to that red error

@copper holly

same as u did

[copper holly]

Ok so we do the same thing as we did just now but put the hashtag on the other hard drive I was handling?

[chilly flare]

yep

[copper holly]

Ok allow me some time

[chilly flare]

u may want to comment out All OF THEM EXcept nvme p1, p2, and swap

this why im not a fan of partition labels and folder names with spaces in them

put an underscore in the folder name in /mnt/Linux_Media/ and in the fstab refence too

[copper holly]

Ok I'm back here again. I remember the last two commands I keyed in is the bottom two "arts" "Linux media"

Before that everything works. I have now marked them. Anything to note or change

[copper holly]

Oh the folder. Ok hang on

[chilly flare]

remember use rootmode file manager with red stripe to fix

for now, u will test with none of those superfluous drives set to automount in fstab. but later should fix the name of mountpoint to not have a space

[copper holly]

Ok I will try to follow. For now sould I save this first and then proceed to the underscoring of the files?

[chilly flare]

yes save

and test. brb

[copper holly]

Oh dear. There is just Linux and media. No Linux media. Should I skip this part and just jump into the test?

[chilly flare]

yeh skip

[copper holly]

Ok the computer boots u0

Just the drives are gone

All are unmounted. How should I proceed

[chilly flare]

ah

yeah u can manually mount them just click

seems the troublesome one may have been "linux media"

rename the partition label in DISKS

(unmount all of them too ) then rename the mountpoint folder from "Linux" to "Linux_Media"

then adjust the automount settings in the Disks app to reflect the change.

[copper holly]

Like this?

Forgot to edit here

[chilly flare]

yeah in last pic, provided you made that folder's actual name correct first, you can edit the mount point there accordingly

[hollow dock]

nice

[chilly flare]

MP: /mnt/Linux_Media

[copper holly]

Ok I repeat this process to my other drives?

[chilly flare]

if there's discrepancies. idk if there are. u may just be able to uncomment the others from fstab

sudo xed /etc/fstab

[copper holly]

Ok I'm going to remount my drives and restart. Let me see if any change happends

[chilly flare]

well I'll come back later.

[copper holly]

Ok one last (hopefully last) update. It seems the crisis is now averted. Tho now the trash bun is gone but I'm sure there is a way to get it back. Thank you so much for helping me through this whole journey. I genuinly was crying in the beginning thinking I already fucked up Linux. Once again I really owe you guys a lot. Now imma begin to figure out how to make use of time shifts.

Before I close this tread allow me to run this oc to ensure no problems. I will update after a day

[copper holly]

Okie! i can confirlm, my pc is now all good, thank you everyone!