My PC freezes in the dev/sda2 clean... screen

adamsandler · 2024-10-22 13:31:56

A little background:

Yesterday, I had Timewarrior (https://man.archlinux.org/man/timew.1.en) running. I wanted to pause the timer, so I hit `ctrl + r` to search for "stop". It was meant to find the previously typed `timew stop` command, but due to muscle memory I accidentally typed in "-P" and hit enter, executing `shutdown -P now` instead. Not a big deal, right? I just booted my PC up again. This time, however, it got stuck in the "dev/sda2 clean..." screen. The cursor wasn't blinking, by the way, showing the screen actually froze.

Relevant: I didn't download nor update any packages, so that can't be the problem. Timewarrior was still running, so I used `su` to stop it.

The first thing I did was to remove the `quiet` parameter from startup. This was the last message displayed before freezing.

Link to first image: https://i.imgur.com/ODdFPi2.png

It also froze when displaying this one:
Link to second image: https://imgur.com/oUgMOvj

I then used a LiveUSB with Arch to mount and chroot into the system. `journalctl` gave me this:
Link to third image: https://imgur.com/Lmgs46o
Image with better quality: https://imgur.com/xdTtz02

Mount point   is not a valid path, ignoring.

I also used `fsck` on all partitions.

Nothing worked.

Omarz2012 · 2024-10-22 14:46:43

maybe manually Mount the partitions with the liveUSB and regenerate the fstab

ewaller · 2024-10-22 15:59:06

At that point, can you press CTRL-ALT-F2 (or F3-6) to change to a different console?

adamsandler · 2024-10-22 17:56:01

ewaller wrote:

At that point, can you press CTRL-ALT-F2 (or F3-6) to change to a different console?

I can't. I tried it, but the screen remains frozen.

coxe87b · 2024-10-23 08:23:43

Can you load up a live USB then chroot into the system and post output of these commands;

lsblk -f

cat /etc/fstab

adamsandler · 2024-10-23 15:22:43

coxe87b wrote:

Can you load up a live USB then chroot into the system and post output of these commands;
lsblk -f

cat /etc/fstab

Here is the output: https://imgur.com/a/Utbt7rZ

At this point, I'm thinking of reinstalling the OS without formatting the /home partition (sda3).

coxe87b · 2024-10-26 02:36:42

When sharing output of a command, it is convention to copy and paste it into a code block in reply using the [c0de] and [/c0de] tags (I have changed the o to 0 for illustrative purposes) or to share it to a pastebin and provide the link. Sharing via a photo of your screen is cumbersome and not ideal.

Regarding your output, the -f option on lsblk was expected to display your UUID information but didn't.

Please run

 sudo blkid -o list

to see a listing of the UUIDs for each partition in a easy to read format.

The purpose of doing this is to cross-reference each against your /etc/fstab to make sure there are no errors.
See https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Fstab# … le_systems for further info.

Be mindful that you want to be doing this while chrooted into your system. It may be best to re-generate your fstab as others have suggested.
See https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Instal … uide#Fstab

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My PC freezes in the dev/sda2 clean... screen

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