Pass phrase to unlock disk no longer works

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Paraphrase

My passphrase to unencrypt my disk randomly stopped working yesterday after working fine both times I tested it.

I’m using Fedora 44, which isn’t officially supported for the framework 12 but idk if that matters?

I am using a frameworks 12 computer. Idk I specs but I could find them if that’s relevant.

Sometimes, after I enter the password, it will load like it’s working, but then show this error screen:
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I can hit enter to make this screen show up:

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But I cannot type anything into this screen, so I can’t view the system logs like it says I can.

Hitting enter from here on out does nothing.

My computer also gets fairly warm when it is loading this error. Not sure if that’s relevant.

If I need to factory reset my computer or something, that’s fine. I have nothing on it.

Please help. My college classes start tomorrow and I’m panicking :sob:
@techsavvy

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Have you looked up how to regenerate your initramfs as the error message indicates?

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No, I didn’t really know what it meant. I’ll try looking it up, but bc I couldn’t type anything I think think to look it up earlier

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Ok, I tried, but it won’t let my type anything in the command line so I can’t run any of the commands needed to reinstall the thing
Wondering if I should just install a fresh copy of fedora? Would that help?

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The error tells you what is wrong. You try to enter into the emergency mode and your root password is locked. This means you do not have set a root password when installing Fedora.

This might help. yes. Are you using ghe Workstation or KDE?

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Thank you
Workstation

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When getting asked for user & password, also create a root password. Then next time you can enter into the rescue mode and use the terminal.

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Thx
Tomorrow I will buy a flash drive from the school store, and download a new Linux thing for my stupid computer

Would it be okay to try a different one? I want bazzite; I meant to download it originally but forgot
Or would that screw things up?

Thank you all for the help as well

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And for several years you don’t get that option when installing Gnome Workstation. To set the root password you need to run sudo passwd root after you have installed the system.

I wish a clever person could figure out how to enter emergency mode without needing a password for root. Now people need the Live System to fix the issue they might have.

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Why limit yourself to two choices? There are spins using a number of other DEs. As an example, I use XFCE and find it very easy to configure to work the way I want it to, not how some dev thinks I should.

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Bazzite is fine, most choices are.
But we don’t support Bazzite here on this forum, as it is not a Fedora product.

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I can’t argue with that, However, when booting into a minimal environment by appending rw init=/bin/bash to the kernel params one is still able to fix at least some of the boot issues (selinux relabeling, errors in fstab, etc). All this is obviously of no use if the root disk is encrypted and cannot be unlocked.

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The thing is that when you reboot the rdsosreport.txt is no longer available, and neither is the log for the latest failed boot.

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I do not limit. Just mentioning what Fedora is officialy suporting.

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I’m aware, thanks. Just wanted to know if it would mess up something. Ty

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Okay, I’m getting an error while trying to boot the new operating system from usb

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Is it Bazzite?

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Workstation see above

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Does the passphrase not work? Is your Keyboard layout different? (with live ISO)

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Workstation does not allow creating a root password during installation nor setup (and has not for many years).
To create the root password on Workstation the user must log in then from a terminal use the command sudo passwd root to set the root password.