Ubuntu 20.04 LTS on Tensorbook freezes during boot, fails to start Journal Service

My Lamba Tensorbook is failing to boot into Ubuntu and enters an endless loop of trying to start Journal Service, failing and trying again. I didn’t recently install any new package. The only unusual thing that I had done was to log out and subsequently shut down the lid. The next time it froze upon opening the lid (failure to resume from a hibernating state has been a perennial issue), and I tried to force a restart. But it started getting stuck in that endless loop. Screenshots are attached. I’m not an expert by any means, and so I tried some of the remedies suggested in other threads which include going into recovery mode and trying to update grub and initramfs, but nothing seems to be working. Please help…

This is the output of
systemctl status systemd-journald.service