My pc is booting in to emergency mode: failed to mount /media/cdrom
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This happen because your system, for some reason, attached /dev/sr0
to the /etc/fstab
file. You need to disable this entry.
- Boot your computer by recovery mode and go to root option;
- type
mount -o remount, rw /
to allow write-permissions to / folder; - Edit
/etc/fstab
and comment line that references to/dev/sr0;
- Save this file and reboot your system.
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Updated on September 18, 2022Comments
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pavan almost 2 years
When I power on my PC, I get this error message:
After logging in, type "journalctl -xb" to view system logs 'systemctl 1 reboot' to reboot, 'systemctl 1 default' or ^D to try again to boot into default mode.
The output of
journalctl -xb
is as followsWhere it is in red color I think it is the cause for the emergency mode.
I am new to Ubuntu. I am using Ubuntu 16.04.
The output of
cat /etc/fstab
is as follows:When I run the command
vim /etc/fstab
I got this message.325: ATTENTION Found a swap file by the name "/etc/.fstab.swp" owned by: root dated: Tue Sep 12 18:39:36 2017 file name: /etc/fstab modified: YES user name: root host name: pavan-desktop process ID: 4439 [not usable on this computer] While opening file "/etc/fstab" dated: Mon Sep 11 19:21:36 2017 (1) Another program may be editing the same file. If this is the case, be careful not to end up with two different instances of the same file when making changes. Quit, or continue with caution. (2) An edit session for this file crashed. If this is the case, use ":recover" or "vim -r /etc/fstab" to recover the changes (see ":help recovery"). If you did this already, delete the swap file "/etc/.fstab.swp" to avoid this message. Swap file "/etc/.fstab.swp" already exists! [O]pen Read-Only, (E)dit anyway, (R)ecover, (D)elete it, (Q)uit, (A)bort: Swap file "/etc/.fstab.swp" already exists! [O]pen Read-Only, (E)dit anyway, (R)ecover, (D)elete it, (Q)uit, (A)bort: Swap file "/etc/.fstab.swp" already exists! [O]pen Read-Only, (E)dit anyway, (R)ecover, (D)elete it, (Q)uit, (A)bort:
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Redbob over 6 yearsIt seems your
/etc/fstab
file has cdrom on it, so it is depending on existing cdrom to complete boot operation. Could you post it? Type root password after the prompt, so typecat /etc/fstab
and upload here. -
pavan over 6 yearsI uploaded the output of the command cat /etc/fstab above in the description.
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Redbob over 6 yearsOK. comment the last line you have (put a # at beginning of
/dev/sr0...
line), save this file and reboot your computer. -
pavan over 6 yearsHow to save it? I have opened vim /etc/fstab file I did as you said but after pressing shift+wq it not saving.
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pavan over 6 yearsWhile I am opening vim /etc/fstab i am getting some message the image of output in the description.
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Redbob over 6 yearsThat output suggests your file is read-only mode. You need to
mount -o remount, rw /
before open vim, to give write permissions to/etc/fstab
. Don't bother, you need to save this change. -
pavan over 6 yearsPlease can you explain me in step by step process
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