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My mbp is stuck on boot and fsck cannot be performed because of:

snap_metadata_val object (oid <aléatoire>): invalid extentref_tree_oid (0x0)

It happens that I have dataless snapshot and if I try to:

tmutil deletelocalsnapshots <date>

I'm getting:

Failed to delete local snapshot '<date>'
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Aleksandar Kostić
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    I wish I could help, but all I can do is point to a similar tale of woe, as yet unresolved - https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/328358/recurring-volume-damage-time-machine-issues [see all the links too, they're part of the overall problem]. I think my next step will be to eliminate APFS entirely & see how it goes back on HFS+. – Tetsujin Jun 26 '18 at 10:37

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I encountered this issue when trying to delete the local snapshot from the Terminal offered by my Mac. The thing is that it booted in "installer" mode and I had to chroot /Volumes/Macintosh HD to be able to run the tmutil commands. The delete however didn't work in this installer mode.

So I had to restart the computer holding Shift to start in safe mode. From there, I could start a Terminal and run the above commands to delete the empty snapshot.

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    This worked for me. The bottom line is "Boot in safe mode by holding down shift key and then use the tmutil deletelocalsnapshots command to get rid of un-deletable snapshots". – rfay Oct 01 '20 at 04:03
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It's not entirely clear from your question but you should run

tmutil listlocalsnapshots /

if one says (dataless), you can delete it, as advised here

Check man tmutil of course too.

should be in form YYYY-MM-DD-HHMMSS as stated at that link.

It worked for me when I was in this situation.

I did not need sudo to do this.

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