So today my Debian totally froze (yes, it can happen, even to Debian, so don't forget to backup!) so I abruptly shut it down by pressing the power button. I restarted the computer, I entered the passphrase for my full disk encryption but then I could not login because of this error message (before the login stage, inside the tty)
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Cannot open access to console. Root account is locked
I was in a hurry to use my computer so the "fastest" way to use my laptop again was by reinstalling the system. Later I read about this and I was wondering if this could have been the solution.
There is no root account installed on my system. I only use sudo.
I abruptly shutdown my system again for testing and it did create the same error.
What do you think ?
I'm afraid that if it only requires an abrupt shutdown to brick the system, I should be prepared to fix it in case it happens again (and it probably will).
EDIT : I tried to abruptly shutdown a VM but it did not create the same error...