System never finishes booting: "A start job is running for Hold until boot process finishes up"

[Akinola Agboola Christopher]

when starting the system, a times it continue booting forever, a times ~ is pressed on the terminal continuously, a times browser page refreshes continuously.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.04
Package: xorg 1:7.7+19ubuntu14
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.4.0-156.173-generic 5.4.241
Uname: Linux 5.4.0-156-generic x86_64
.tmp.unity_support_test.0:

ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu27.27
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: skip
CompizPlugins: No value set for `/apps/compiz-1/general/screen0/options/active_plugins'
CompositorRunning: None
Date: Wed Aug 23 05:48:28 2023
DistUpgraded: 2023-08-22 17:02:39,893 DEBUG Running PostInstallScript: '/usr/lib/ubuntu-advantage/upgrade_lts_contract.py'
DistroCodename: focal
DistroVariant: ubuntu
ExtraDebuggingInterest: Yes
GraphicsCard:
 Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Thames [Radeon HD 7550M/7570M/7650M] [1002:6841] (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
   Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Thames [Radeon HD 7550M/7570M/7650M] [103c:179d]
InstallationDate: Installed on 2021-09-01 (720 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release amd64 (20170801)
MachineType: Hewlett-Packard HP EliteBook 8470p
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_NG:en
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_NG
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.4.0-156-generic root=UUID=dca1fea7-0abc-49dd-b6e0-6ab184a7280d ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
SourcePackage: xorg
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to focal on 2023-08-22 (0 days ago)
dmi.bios.date: 04/11/2019
dmi.bios.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
dmi.bios.version: 68ICF Ver. F.74
dmi.board.name: 179B
dmi.board.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
dmi.board.version: KBC Version 42.38
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: CNU348CCGV
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnHewlett-Packard:bvr68ICFVer.F.74:bd04/11/2019:svnHewlett-Packard:pnHPEliteBook8470p:pvrA1029D1102:rvnHewlett-Packard:rn179B:rvrKBCVersion42.38:cvnHewlett-Packard:ct10:cvr:
dmi.product.family: 103C_5336AN G=N L=BUS B=HP S=ELI
dmi.product.name: HP EliteBook 8470p
dmi.product.sku: C8L56UP#ABA
dmi.product.version: A1029D1102
dmi.sys.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
version.compiz: compiz 1:0.9.14.1+20.04.20220820-0ubuntu1
version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.107-8ubuntu1~20.04.2
version.libgl1-mesa-dri: libgl1-mesa-dri 21.2.6-0ubuntu0.1~20.04.2
version.libgl1-mesa-glx: libgl1-mesa-glx 21.2.6-0ubuntu0.1~20.04.2
version.xserver-xorg-core: xserver-xorg-core 2:1.20.13-1ubuntu1~20.04.8
version.xserver-xorg-input-evdev: xserver-xorg-input-evdev 1:2.10.6-1
version.xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:19.1.0-1
version.xserver-xorg-video-intel: xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.99.917+git20200226-1
version.xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:1.0.16-1
xserver.bootTime: Thu Dec 15 05:38:30 2022
xserver.configfile: default
xserver.errors:
 /dev/dri/card0: failed to set DRM interface version 1.4: Permission denied
 /dev/dri/card0: failed to set DRM interface version 1.4: Permission denied
xserver.logfile: /var/log/Xorg.0.log
xserver.version: 2:1.19.6-1ubuntu4.1~16.04.6
xserver.video_driver: radeon