On Mon, May 25, 2026 at 12:41:30 +0100, Chris Green wrote: > Cannot open access to cosole, the root account is locked > See sulogin(8) man page for more details
Does the system have a root password, or did you leave that blank during installation, and have been administering it entirely with sudo the whole time? Unfortunately, if you leave the root password blank, there is no way to enter single-user mode during boot -- because you must supply the root password to do that. A lot of people are not aware of this, because it's so rarely needed. Instead of booting into single-user mode, you can try booting directly into a root shell (init=/bin/bash and so on). You should search the web for full instructions on how to do that, because there are a few steps involved. If you ever do get the system back to a working state (defined as having the root file system mounted read-write), you should consider setting a root password at that time, so that single-user mode will work.
