RHEL7 password recovery turned screen black upon reboot
This is with RHEL7.1 (Maipo).
I've had a few VMs where I've had to recover the Root passwd and upon rebooting, I would get the text output for sometime and then just a black screen. Systemd is set to graphical.target.
I would have to go back in and recover the Root passwd again and then it would correctly boot into the GUI so that I could log in.
Has anyone else experienced this?
thanks
Responses
Hello, when updating the System Administrator's Guide I tested the password reset procedures many times and only remember problems related to SELinux. But I solved that and updated the procedure. Can you confirm you are following one of the procedures here Changing and Resetting the Root Password?
Hello,
I'm encountering this issue as well. First, I booted into single-user mode by adding the "single" statement in the grub loader option. Afterwards, it would boot into emergency mode but it would still prompt me for the password. So, I booted this time and added "rw init=/bin/bash" and that dropped me into a shell. I reset the password there and restarted the system. Afterwards, I see the GUI login screen pop-up for like 2 seconds with a loading wheel and the screen goes black. Nothing else happens.
When I was in the shell session, I only ran passwd and it said password reset successful. I heard that single-user mode auto mounts the file systems, so I did not run mount.
Any suggestions?
Thank you.
EDIT: This is also a VM RHEL 7 installation.
Hello, please confirm if you have read and are following the procedures in the System Administrator's Guide section Changing and Resetting the Root Password.
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