Emergency Mode Bootloop
I was just using chiaki and it stopped responding. So I decided to restart and am greeted with this on every boot now. I click enter, same message. Would really like some help as I dont want weeks worth of time just wasted for seemingly no reason
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I have the same problème
Strange, mine happened on Bazzite for desktop PC's
Bumping since there was no help.
Im not technically incapable, so come at me with fix ideas
It looks like you get this error if Fedora cannot mount the /home partition https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/cannot-open-access-to-console-the-root-account-is-locked-in-emergency-mode-dracut-emergency-shell/71613
See if you can boot a live USB of Ubuntu/Debian/Fedora
In the live distro, you'd want to run
sudo fdisk -x and get the UUID of all partitions in the system.
Then check the /etc/fstab (it'll probably be in /var/etc/fstab on your Bazzite partition) file on your Bazzite install. Pay particular attention to the /home or /var/home entry in the file. Check if all the UUID entries match what is in the fileFedora Discussion
Cannot open access to console, the root account is locked in emerge...
If Fedora can’t mount /home partition for any reason, it’ll enter emergency mode (also known as dracut emergency shell) as it should, but will give this error message: Cannot open access to console, the root account is locked. See sulogin(8) man page for more details. Press Enter to continue. On pressing [Enter] it tries to reload emergency s...
Will try this tomorrow