On Thu, 9 May 2019 17:56:51 -0700 Samuel Sieb <samuel(a)sieb.net> wrote:
On 5/9/19 3:50 PM, Ranjan Maitra wrote:
> After a three successful upgrades to F30 from F29 under my belt, a cocky me has been
floored. Everything went through fine (or so it seemed) using dnf upgrade --releasever 30
but I ended with, upon reboot:
>
> You are in emergency mode. After logging in, type "journalctl -xb"
to view system logs, "systemctl reboot" to reboot, "systemctl default"
or "exit" to boot into default mode.
> Give root password for maintenance.
> (or press Control-D to continue):
>
> One problem is that I do not have a root password. I have actually gone in using a
livecd and the devices (1 ext4 and 2 xfs) appear to be clean.
Using the live boot, you can chroot to the installed system and set the
root password.
Sorry but exactly how does one do this? I have no experience here with this.
Many thanks,
Ranjan