I booted my asus M5A78L-M/USB3 machine this morning and got the following on the screen:

Welcome to emergency mode! After logging in, type "journalct1 -xb" to vie
system logs, "systemct1 reboot" to reboot, "systemct1 default" to try again
to boot into default mode
Give root password for maintenance
(or press contol-D to continue):
XFS (sda3): Metadata corruption detected at_write_verify+0xd5/0xe0 [xfs], block 0x113e04a8
XFS (sda3): Unmount and run xfs_repair
XFS (sda3): First 64 bytes of corrupted metadata
ffff88041858d000: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 3d f1 00 00 6c 5b c2 e6
ffff88041858d010: 00 00 00 00 11 3e 04 a8 00 00 00 08 00 03 98 6b
ffff88041858d020: fe 46 ee 45 ce 25 48 31 ae 52 c0 55 27 cf 6d 44
ffff88041858d030: 00 00 00 00 10 00 00 42 00 52 c0 03 00 00 00 00
XFS (sda3): Corruption of in-memory data detected. Shutting down filesystem
XFS (sda3): Please unmount the filesystem and rectify the problem(s)

Since I'm relatively inexperienced with Leap 42.1 and XFS I would like some help getting out of the mess. The M5A78L-M/USB3 has 16 gig installed and and an FX8320 six core in service.

Do you have a working operating system?

Then download a distro, which has a live mode.

Like systemrescue cd.

And run xfs_repair

without having mounted the defective partition.

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Thank you for your suggestion. I do have an operating system. I have booted using knoppix 7.6.1 and in terminal mode ran xfs_repair -d. The response was that the log text was corrupted. I then ran xfs_repair -L after assuring myself that the target partition was not mounted to delete the log. I ran xfs_repair -d again. The result was that the partition is now operating.