Have something go wrong while you are in a virtual machine and you end up having to force quit? Sometimes that doesn’t end so well with the guest operating system. This can often be the case when running the Fedora instance for CIT225 and you may come face to face with the Fedora Emergency Mode.
You can verify that it is malformed data in the virtual disk by checking the system logs.
journalctl -xb
In the output you may see some red lines that say that a service called fsck failed. This means you most likely have malformed data. Luckily, that same service can fix the problem and have us up and going very quickly. Simply run:
fsck /dev/mapper/fedora-root
Then use the VMware menu to restart or reset the virtual machine. It should boot to Fedora.