[Discuss] Debian keeps asking for root password for maintenance

markw at mohawksoft.com markw at mohawksoft.com
Thu Jan 27 15:28:55 EST 2022


Its finding an error at boot, what does journalctl dump out?

> On Thu, 27 Jan 2022 14:52:22 -0500
> Rich Pieri <Richard.Pieri at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Any clues what the problem is or what I inadvertently changed to cause
>> this behavior?
>
> A thing I found:
>
> $ cat /proc/cmdline
> BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-5.10.0-11-amd64 root=/dev/mapper/marller--vg-root
> ro quiet single
>
> So it's picking up single user mode from somewhere which partially
> answers the question "why?". But I don't have this in /etc/default/grub:
>
> GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet consoleblank=0 acpi=off"
> GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=""
>
> But it's definitely getting into my grub.cfg when I re-run update-grub.
>
> linux   /vmlinuz-5.10.0-11-amd64 root=/dev/mapper/marller--vg-root ro
> single
>
> So the current question is: where is this coming from?
>
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