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.