Boot error - provide password for maintenance

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Hi folks,

When booting Linux I am now presented with a message that tells me I have to provide the root password for maintenance. When I do so and execute journalctl -xb I see the following errors:

failed to execute /usr/lib/udev/VBoxCreateUSBNode.sh’ ‘/usr/lib/udev/VBoxCreateUSBMode.sh 189 640 09 vboxusers’: No such file or directory
(there are 9 more lines that are very similar. I tried using VBox a long time ago but gave up; haven’t used it again in years)

<more stuff not in red font>

sp5100_tco: I/O address 0x0cd6 already in use

<more stuff not in red font then three more VBox error lines>

Timed out waiting for device dev-sdh1.device.

Last night I launched partition to see if I could format a USB thumb drive but I backed out; not sure if that has anything to do with it.

Any suggestions are welcome, but they need to be simple because I’m not a Linux sys admin. Thank you!

Regards,

Bill

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That’s the most likely reason for going into emergency mode.

Last night I launched partition to see if I could format a USB thumb drive but I backed out; not sure if that has anything to do with it.

Check /etc/fstab. If there is line referring to /dev/sdh1, delete this line.

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Hooray!

That was it - the very last line in /etc/fstab (I deleted it).

Thank you so much.

Bill