On Tue, Oct 30, Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 30/10/2018 22.51, Michael Fischer wrote:
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Haven't encountered this on previous installations, nor prior to a few weeks ago on this box.
On a reboot, where it wold normally prompt for login,
login: <typing anything here is not echoed back to the screen> Give Root Password for Maintenance (or press Control-D to continue)
At this point, you can only login as root. You must login as root and solve the issue why the system is in emergency mode. Probably there was some message before that.
The prompts from the system suggest that certainly, but while typing the root password _sometimes_ gets me a root prompt, doing anything, (e.g. `ls`) gets me another cascade of "login failed" and the above messages again, and again...
journalctl _does_ show:
Oct 30 16:50:25 blinkenlights smartd[929]: Device: /dev/sda [SAT], 16 Currently unreadable (pending) sectors Oct 30 16:50:25 blinkenlights smartd[929]: Device: /dev/sda [SAT], 16 Offline uncorrectable sectors
Not sure if that is pertainent.
Not necesarily - unless those bad sectors contain files needed for the start.
Indeed... does a reinstall of the OS help this sort of thing, or does it more likely mean "new nvme drive wanted" + a reinstall of the OS ? (I mean, ordinarily, "bad disk" would mean "replace disk, etc." Just wondering if reinstall can do differently in this case - root is on an SSD) Michael -- Michael Fischer michael@visv.net -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org