Single user boot fails..

[ThomasADavis]

Describe the bug

I needed to get into single user mode after a boot failure, and found that with the root account locked, you cannot get a console.

From this documentation snippet at https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/fedora-coreos/access-recovery/

When booting the system, intercept the GRUB menu and edit the entry to append single to the kernel argument list, then press Ctrl-X to resume booting.

Which when you attempt this, you will get a root account is locked message and no console.

Reproduction steps

1. follow the instructions at https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/fedora-coreos/access-recovery/ for single user boot/recovery.

Expected behavior

Single user boot should give the root console access.

Actual behavior

Root account is locked, you can't get a console prompt.

You are in emergency mode. After logging in, type "journalctl -xb" to view system logs, "systemctl reboot" to reboot, "systemctl default" or “exit” to boot into default mode.

Cannot open access to console, the root account is locked.

System details

I've seen this on all versions since version 39.

Version: 40.20240701.3.0 (2024-07-17T18:29:03Z)

Butane or Ignition config

No response

Additional information

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