Thanks, Roger and Ed. I did not touch fstab at all. It may have been VirtualBox by itself. I did enter my root password. And now, what should I do next? Thanks, Paul On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 1:09 PM Roger Heflin <rogerheflin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > You have to type your password and then figure out what is going wrong. > > Any number of things can be messed up. Often if one adds a fstab > entry and does it wrong systemd will drop you to emergency mode. > Mountpoint mising, path to device wrong. If you did mess with fstab > recently then add ",nofail" on the entries that aren't directly > related to the OS and that will at least get it up and on the network. > > You should read the screen, and use shift-pageup/shift-pagedown to > carefully go back and read the boot output and maybe it will tell you. > If you have doubt on what your are reading then take photos of it. > > On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 6:24 AM Paul Smith <phhs80@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > Dear All, > > > > This morning, I tried to run VirtualBox, but it did not start. Then I > > tried to do a reboot and while booting, I got into emergency mode. I > > typed my root password and issued the command > > > > systemctl reboot > > > > It reboots, but again I got locked into emergency mode. > > > > How can I overcome this? > > > > Thanks in advance, > > > > Paul > > _______________________________________________ > > users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > > List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
