On Thu, 9 May 2019 17:56:51 -0700 Samuel Sieb <sam...@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
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