Somehow the EFI partition doesn't mount and it's impossible to troubleshoot via phone, she asked me to put back the old system 😞
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Sounds like a hardware issue, so ...
Seems like only the EFI partition is missing. She told me "ls /home/her name" shows stuff but "ls /boot/efi" is empty
Apparently this happened by itself
I should have chosen something like silverblue but I wasn't familiar with that
How does it even get into emergency mode without the efi partition?
The EFI partition isn't missing or, you're right, it wouldn't boot at all.
If the /boot/efi isn't set to nofail in fstab then it failing to mount would dump them into emergency mode. This could also be cause by something simple like a syntax error in fstab.
It's also possible that there's a broken bootloader entry. For example, If the system was installed with LUKS encryption on the home directory and one of the boot entry doesn't have the luks module. The system would boot but everything after that would fail because it can't decrypt and mount /home.
The screenshot isn't useful, those BPF errors are likely a symptom of the original problem but they pushed the real error off screen. We'd need to see the output of journactl -xb in order to figure it out.
e: I forgot my unhelpful advice: Tell her to try Arch.