After some hurdles, I recently installed Qubes on an external SSD. Everything was running perfectly. While converting some PDFs in disposable vms, the OS suddenly froze, and I got some kind of error that was just a bunch of squares with no readable text that wouldn’t go away. I rebooted, and when I tried to enter my disk encryption password I got some kind of dracut error:
[ 2.931246] dracut-cmdline[205]: Warning: USB in dom0 is not restricted. Consider rd.qubes/hide_all_usb or usbcore.authorized_default=0.
Generating: "/run/initiramfs/rdsosreport.txt"
Entering emergency mode. Exit the shell to continue.
Type "journalctl" to view system logs.
You might want to save "/run/initramfs/rdsosreport.txt" to a USB stick or /boot
after mounting them and attach it to a bug report.
Please Enter for maintenance
(or press Control+D to continue):
I searched on the forums to see if anyone had this problem and it seemed to be a wrong password. So I rebooted and tried to enter a wrong password deliberately, but when I do this it just blanks the password and I can try again. When I enter the correct password, I get the same emergency mode screen.
I tried the troubleshooting instructions here as recommended on another relevant post: Autostart troubleshooting | Qubes OS
but the same thing happened.
When I type journalctl and scroll down to the final lines, I see the following:
