Stuck in single user mode

Operating Systems & Open Source Linux
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Everything is ok now.

TLDR production server server shut down for maintenance, did not come back up, got stuck in single user mode.

Couldnt repair the disk, so i had the datacenter recover what they could and reinstalled.

Thanks for the help!

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Why isn't this production server running in a VM with the ability to take snapshots to fall back on in cases like this??? Why wasn't this update tested in a non-production environment????

Anyways, I'm assuming you want a gui, try

$startx

or

edit your grub to default to no longer start in text only mode.

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash"

then update grub and reboot.

Then I would do some reading up on Runlevels.

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So you should be able to boot into the previous kernel, just change the boot order in the grub config, I would hope it doesnt delete kernels after an update

Which OS?

If its modern, journalctl -b -p err will give you any errors in the last boot