On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 11:08 AM, Ranjan Maitra <maitra.mbox.ignored@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > Thanks for offering to help! > > On Thu, 18 Dec 2014 10:14:37 -0700 Chris Murphy <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 10:06 AM, Ranjan Maitra >> <maitra.mbox.ignored@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> > Hi, >> > >> > A recent update with new kernel has broken my boot. This is what happens: I boot in through grub. Pretty soon, I get: >> > >> > Generating "/run/initramfs/rsdsosreport.txt" >> > Welcome to emergency mode! After loggin in, type "journalctl -xb" to view system logs, "systemctl reboot" to reboot, "systemctl default" or ^D to try again to boot into defauly mode. >> > Give root password for maintenance. >> > (or press Control-D to continue): >> > >> > >> > I do not have root on this machine, so I am not sure what to do (I have sudo status). What am I supposed to do? (I may say Ctrl-D does get me the login screen, but why this message and rigmarole)? Yeah I'm actually confused on this point too, now that I've tried it. The installer allows installation to complete, without setting a root password, so long as a user has been created. But emergency shell requires a root password. So... basic boot time troubleshooting is incompatible with an installer that allows no root password being set. I think the easiest, maybe least desirable, and possibly against your local policy, would be to complete the boot (control-d) and then set a root password: sudo passwd root > $ sudo cat /run/initramfs/rdsosreport.txt > cat: /run/initramfs/rdsosreport.txt: No such file or directory I'm going to guess, that this file goes away after boot completes, it doesn't get moved anywhere. And since you can't login as root, you can't copy it somewhere else. So... to get that report you'd going to need to be root. For security purposes, you could make the root password temporary for troubleshooting, then change it again from your regular (admin) account: sudo passwd root, and make it an impossible password that you don't record anywhere, you could even has the proposed password through shasum and use that as the password and not record it anywhere. Basically deep six root. It's no different than root without a password. If any wheel account is hacked, they can change the root password in any case. -- Chris Murphy -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
