Comment 20 for bug 554079

Same for me on a Dell MIni 9; whether forced or "natural", fsck hangs at 70% for a short time, then advances to 71% and the system promptly freezes altogether.

If I shut down with the off button and boot into the recovery mode of the same (latest) kernel, fsck completes and is followed by a lot of error messages about Plymouth failing, then back to the recovery menu. From there normal boot is possible.