Dreaded emergency shell disappeared upon a reboot

After not doing anything special and a standard shutdown last night, upon booting this morning, I was greeted with the Dracut Emergency Shell which states:

warning: /dev/mapper/qubes_dom0-root does not exist
warning: /dev/qubes_dom0/root does not exist
warning: /dev/qubes_dom0/swap does not exist

I tried to find the relevant lines in rdsosreport.txt but it was over my head. However, upon a reboot, the system was as normal!

My question: is this an indication that there is something unstable in my system, such as a failing SSD? Or could it have been caused by simple chance, or a wrong LUKS password entry?

You’ll see these errors if you enter the incorrect LUKS password a few times.

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