HELP: stuck in emergency mode

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hi,
i’m new to fedora, only have had it since 2 weeks and i need help (and please be patient with me).

i had my laptop freeze for a long time, so i had to do a hard shutdown. then, when i started it again, after booting there was 1) 3 fedora boot options 2) 1 emergency boot options. all fedora boots lead to me having to enter the decryption password, and then i get the following screen:

Generating “/run/initramfs/rdsosreport.txt”

Entering emergency mode. Exit the shell to continue.
Type “journalctl” to view system logs.
You might want to savw “/run/initramfs/rdsosreport.txt” to a USB stick or /boot after mounting tyem and attach it to a bug report.

Press Enter for maintenance
(or press Control-D to continue):

what do i do, how do i proceed? please explain it to me, guide me through it.

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first the logs could be helpfull to get on usb as it says and then trying to boot using ctrl+d to continue usually it works sometimes there is something more

3

so how do i move it to a usb stick? just plug in a usb stick? is there some sort of command

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Note that he said it goes into emergency mode, which is not reaching even the login screen. Logs are not available until the desktop or console can be reached and since the root account is locked by default the only recovery may be by using a live install media to boot then a chroot to the installed system, or booting directly to single user mode using the grub menu commands. Once there a root password may be set to allow entering the recovery mode directly from the emergency mode.

You may be able to continue directly from the grub boot menu by entering a single user environment. This involves pressing the e key while the grub boot menu is displayed to edit the boot commands. There is a line that begins with linux and probably contains rhgb quiet along with additional information. Remove the rhgb quiet and replace it with /usr/bin/bash to get to single user mode as root as you continue the boot. At that point you should get a console environment and recovery actions should be available. Ask for additional assistance at that point instead of just performing commands.

I am not certain how to unlock the encrypted drive using this path since I do not use encryption.

5

good info there jeff thank you

i have had this issue many tine and hitting ctrl+d to continue usuakly works and then it asks encryption password and most if the time i get in to DE

6

okay, where might i ask for additional assistance? do i open a new thread? thanks

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No, but you have not given us any detail to work with.
I only understand that you are getting to emergency mode.

I made a couple suggestions, but we have no clue what your current situation is or if you even tried what was suggested.

Searching on this forum can provide a lot of information about how similar problems were solved by others.

This is a two-way communication platform so we make suggestions and you provide feedback about exactly what the response was so we are able to move forward. Without feedback there is no progress possible.