Greetings, I'd like to ask for help with my personal machine if that is okay. I'll list the errors first then explain how I think it occured, and then what I have done so far.
The system of mine is stuck in emergency mode. The error from the journalctl is transcribed by me with some abbreviation (in parentheses) and listed by line to break it up a bit: Each Line is prefaced with: Sep 10 13:29:47 fedora Line 1: audit[1]: SERVICE_STOP pid(id),uid(id),ses(id), subj=system_u:system_r:init_t:s0 msg='unit=systemd-rfkill comm="systemd" exe="(PATH)/systemd" hostname=? addr=? terminal=? res=success' Line 2: kernel: kauditd_printk_skb: 35 callbacks suppressed Line 3: kernel: audit: type(id) audit(id): pid,uid,auid,ses(ids) subj=system_u:system_r:init_t:s0 msg='unit=systemd-rfkill comm="systemd" exe="(PATH)/systemd" hostname=? addr=? terminal=? res=success: Line 4: sytemd[1]: dev-disk-by\x2duuid-ACB0\x2d8373.device: Job dev-disk-by\x2duuid-ACB0\x2d8373.device/start timed out. Line 5: systemd[1]: Timed out waiting for device dev-disk-by\x2duuid-ACB0\x2d8373.device - /dev/disk/by-uuid/ACB0-8373 LINES 6-10: Subject: A start job for unit dev-disk-by\x2duuid-ACB0\x2d8373.device has failed Defined-By systemd Support: (this mailing list) A start job for dev-disk-by\x2duuid-ACB0\x2d8373.device has finished with a failure. The job identifier is 236 and the job result is timeout. Incase any of the values I replaced with (id) are needed, for my own reference, the actual 1st line number is 3169. I transcribed this my hand on my cell phone and it was hell, lol. So, I actually don't know if this error message is related to my overall problem: my fedora PC is stuck booting into emergency mode. The speculated cause is my PC was installing a kernel update when a shutdown command was executed. Specifically I ran, "sudo dnf update && shutdown now". Normally this installs updates and gracefully shutdown afterwards. I have so far: 1) regenerated initramfs for all kernels 2) Rebuilt GRUB configuration 3) Reset my root user password (this solved the error message before emergency mode which said that the OS was unable to load the root user's account) 4) Edited the /etc/fstab to have root directory setting changed from 0 0 to 0 1 so it should presumably boot first. No affect will likely change it back. I dont know for sure if this is a drive issue as searching the internet has tried to tell me. I believe and hope the transcribed error message above is the cause and fixing that will restore my system. Any assistance is appreciated! Regards, Christian
