[Q] Total force close on boot?

[zarpa]

Today my GSII (CM 7.2) froze up and rebooted, which has happened several times before without any problem. Except this time when it came back up, instead of taking me to the lock screen it went straight to the home screen and showed me force close messages for practically every app I own.
ex:
com.android.phone
com.android.deskclock
com.android.email
com.keramidas.TitaniumBackup
com.google.process.gapps
com.android.vending
com.google.android.youtube
com.google.android.gm
com.swype.android.inputmethod
android.process.acore
android.process.media
-those were just the ones I could see before more started popping up
Once I am able to dismiss all of them the screen goes black except for the status bar and then the screen turns off complete with the CRT transition.
It seems like all of the force closes are related to apps that create a background process when the device boots.
My problem is that i can't get the reboot menu to come up so I can't get it to boot into recovery anymore; I was able once and cleared the cache, devalik cache and battery stats but none of that helped at all, It just made the boot a little longer.
Any help would be appreciated greatly.

 

[dayv]

Hold power button + volume up + volume down at the same time - after the initial boot splash screen flashes twice it will boot you into recovery mode, just hold all three buttons down until recovery comes up.

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[Waddle]

Hold power button + volume up + volume down at the same time - after the initial boot splash screen flashes twice it will boot you into recovery mode.

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After you do that, try a factory reset, or data wipe. That should fix the issue...

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[AngelsNecropolis]

This just happened to me as well. It was working fine 6 hours before and after I woke up everything force closes even after cache/dalvik wipe and reflash of the ROM and GApps. Although I hadn't tried the factory wipe before I screwed it up even more.

Anyone know what causes these mass force closures? Can it be prevented?