Yum Update caused RHEL 8.5 to boot into EMERGENCY MODE.

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Hi,

In the past, I've had no issues doing a fresh 8.5 install on various machines until recently.

Not sure if it's hardware related but in two seperate cases now, after a fresh install, and a yum update, and restart, it now adds 8.6 to the gnome list on top of the 8.5.

This then causes the OS to go into emergency mode, but if you press CTRL-D or whatever command it is, it goes back into the GUI no issue.

This only matters becauses I need it to auto-load and auto-log me in, and this will stop me.

For now, I am going to try and not yum update, but I would just like some insight on why this happened and what I can do to prevent it.

For now, all our systems remain 8.5 and hopefully this won't cause further issues as other software continuously update and is dependent on certain update feautures.

Cheers,
Z

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