A screen shot of the fstab does not tell anyone anything as we have no way to know what is going on. Did you follow the instructions to use shift-pageup/down to page through the error messages (above the emergency mode prompt) and and see what it indicates is going wrong? It is probably going to tell you something that will indicate where to look. On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 7:34 AM Paul Smith <phhs80@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Please, see my fstab photo: > > https://drive.google.com/file/d/1fWv2h-CLt2ecoE2m5aCpAOsUr2aEhuvh/view?usp=sharing > > Paul > > > On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 1:22 PM Paul Smith <phhs80@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > 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 _______________________________________________ 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
