Lost root access after (what seems to be failed attempt to) F38 upgrade

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OS: F37, 64-bit Workstation Edition
Gnome: 43.4, Wayldand
Thinkpad T14s

Today Software from The GNOME Project indicated it is finally time to upgrade to F38.
Without any hesitation, I clicked the Download, then Install and Reboot buttons.

After my system rebooted to my surprise I was prompted to follow the same process again… the problem is now that I am no longer in the sudoers file, and for whatever reason, I need to log in to the Administrator account, to which I have no access.

Is anyone else having similar problems?

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No problem for me, used dnf system-upgrade on 3 machines.

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Thanks Vladislav, I’m aware of the above.

$ sudo usermod -aG wheel username, or anything with sudo won’t work - I have no access to it anymore.

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Log in as root using the first link.

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I will - later on, just wondering here if anyone else is having similar issues.

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Have a look if you have a renamed user:

/etc/passwd |grep /bin/bash

We had this once here, that user got renamed. While update interrupted or similar.

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You also could boot to single user mode as root by modifying the grub command line during boot and removing quiet rhgb and adding at the end /bin/bash. This results in a boot directly to the command line as the root user where repairs can be made then another boot finishes the recovery.