Ubuntu – Failed to start Load Kernel Modules Ubuntu 16.04

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Yesterday I was booting up my computer and it gave me this error message:

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I was searching for a solution and came across this forum discussion :
https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2326216

So then I booted into recovery mode from the grub boot menu, as someone suggested and then try to run $ sudo apt-get update.

Here is where I started struggling. I cannot get my computer to connect to the internet.

$ ping google.com just gives me ping: unknown host google.com

So then I tried to run $ sudo dhclient eth0 but it returned this error message:

run-parts: failed to stat component /etc/dhcp/dhclient-enter-hooks.d/debug: No such file or directory
run-parts: failed to stat component /etc/dhcp/dhclient-exit-hooks.d/debug: No such file or directory
run-parts: failed to stat component /etc/dhcp/dhclient-enter-hooks.d/debug: No such file or directory
RTNETLINK answers: File exists
run-parts: failed to stat component /etc/dhcp/dhclient-exit-hooks.d/debug: No such file or directory

How can I fix this?

EDIT: journalctl | grep modules gives me:

 systemd-modules-load[214]: Inserted module 'lp'
 systemd-modules-load[214]: Inserted module 'ppdev'
 systemd-modules-load[214]: Inserted module 'parport_pc'
 systemd-modules-load[214]: Failed to find module 'rtc'
 systemd[1]: systemd-modules-load.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status1/FAILURE
 systemd[1]: systemd-modules-load.service: Unit entered failed state
 systemd[1]: systemd-modules-load.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'

Best Answer

OP solved their problem as follows:

[FAILED] Failed to start Load Kernel Modules was a red-herring. rtc is an obsolete module. The error message was removed by switching to tty1 (ctrl+alt+F1) and commenting out rtc (putting # at the start of the line) in /etc/modules (using sudoedit).

Now the computer would just boot to a blank screen.

Again in tty1, I then tried to connect to the internet, but sudo dhclient eth0 gave me this error message : 

failed to stat component /etc/dhcp/dhclient-enter-hooks.d/debug: No such file or directory
failed to stat component /etc/dhcp/dhclient-exit-hooks.d/debug: No such file or directory

It turned out broken symlinks were to blame for that so to fix it:

cd /etc/dhcp/dhclient-enter-hooks.d
sudo rm debug
sudo ln -s ../debug.dbkg-new debug`

and then

cd /etc/dhcp/dhclient-exit-hooks.d
sudo rm debug
sudo ln -s ../debug.dbkg-new debug

So then it was possible to do sudo dhclient eth0

ping google.com returned unknown host google.com but ping 8.8.8.8 worked fine, so this was fixed by doing echo 'nameserver 8.8.8.8' | sudo tee /etc/resolv.conf as advised by steeldriver in this comment

With internet connected at last, all problems were fixed by running: 

sudo apt-get update
dpkg --configure -a
sudo apt full-upgrade -f
sudo apt -f install
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