Recently hit that on Focal due to the fact that quotas were enabled by LXD.
This renders the system completely unresponsive if you use btrfs as a rootfs with btrfs-transaction or btrfs-cleaner kernel threads hogging a 100% of 1 CPU core.
Booting using a live USB, disabling quotas and temporarily moving /etc/systemd/system/snap-lxd-* files out helps (followed by `snap disable lxd` until it gets updated with https://github.com/lxc/lxd/pull/7032).
Recently hit that on Focal due to the fact that quotas were enabled by LXD.
This renders the system completely unresponsive if you use btrfs as a rootfs with btrfs-transaction or btrfs-cleaner kernel threads hogging a 100% of 1 CPU core.
Booting using a live USB, disabling quotas and temporarily moving /etc/systemd/ system/ snap-lxd- * files out helps (followed by `snap disable lxd` until it gets updated with https:/ /github. com/lxc/ lxd/pull/ 7032).