Stuck in emergency mode

[rupertpumpkin]

Hi, I've just tried starting my laptop with Mint Xfce 20.3 and it takes me straight to emergency mode (last time I used laptop everything worked fine). I tried rebooting and going to default mode but it still takes me to emergency mode when trying to boot the system.
So as per instructions I ran that journal command and scrolled through the log to catch any issues highlighte in red and found the following:
systemd-fsck [468] fsck failed with exit status 4
systemd [1] Failed to start File System CHeck on /dev/disk/by-vvid/ac367926-79ef-48c5-a1aa-84e1236b371a

Also saw another line saying: Dependency failed for /home

Have anyone see this issue before? It looks like it's not seeing my home partiton for some reason? Is there anything I can do about this or should I try recovering the system?

Thanks,
Kuba

[mikeflan]

Hi and welcome to the forum.
Is emergency mode a black screen with a black terminal? Can you post a pic?
Is your home on your OS drive, or another drive/partition?

Please post the output of this in a terminal, assuming you can get to a terminal:

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ls -la /dev/disk/by-uuid

And if that does not work:

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ls -la /dev/disk

[rupertpumpkin]

Hi and welcome to the forum.
Is emergency mode a black screen with a black terminal? Can you post a pic?
Is your home on your OS drive, or another drive/partition?

Please post the output of this in a terminal, assuming you can get to a terminal:

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ls -la /dev/disk/by-uuid

And if that does not work:

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ls -la /dev/disk

Hi, thanks for the reply!

Yes its a black screen with terminal. I have separate root and home partitions, plus a few more because im running win11 alongside mint.
Attaching the screenshot. Sorry foe the quality but i couldnt upload anytjing larger than 200kb.

[mikeflan]

I would do an fsck on the OS drive, which might be nvme0n1p4.
I'm hoping somebody who knows about these things will come along and help you.

Scan a disk with fsck:
https://phoenixnap.com/kb/fsck-command-linux

[rupertpumpkin]

Hey, I ran fsck for my home partition and there were a few issues that I fixed and now I was able to boot without no issues.

Please could someone take a look to see if that was anything serious?

Also, is there a way to change the partition name (considering I have Windows set up alongside Linux)? For some reason the logic for mine is /dev/nvme0n1px where is is partition nubmer. I would like to change it to dev/sda1, dev/sda2 etc. Is that possible?

[Catsbark]

I'm sure someone with more knowledge than I have will explain this better, but sda and nvme identify the type of storage device the OS is looking at. There are others for DVDs, etc, but you can't change that ID.

[SMG]

Hey, I ran fsck for my home partition and there were a few issues that I fixed and now I was able to boot without no issues.

Please could someone take a look to see if that was anything serious?

If it was serious, the repairs would not have been possible.

Also, is there a way to change the partition name (considering I have Windows set up alongside Linux)? For some reason the logic for mine is /dev/nvme0n1px where is is partition nubmer. I would like to change it to dev/sda1, dev/sda2 etc. Is that possible?

As Catsbark has indicated, the logic corresponds to the type of drive. You can not change nvme to sd unless you can change the physical hardware.