Site not working after maintenance reboot

I have a similar issue and any help would be really appreciated.

I reset the root password of my droplet through the DO admin panel and right after I couldn’t connect anymore from my saved putty connection. After some investigations and reading here too, I noticed that in the console, when I’m asked to login, it reads: “Give root password for maintenance (or press Ctrl-D to continue)” and all the services (ssh, apache, mysql, etc.) are inactive. So, of course, my site is down.

Also, if in the console I login as root and then I type “exit” it gets stuck instead of asking me again to login. So the only option is to turn off the droplet and turn it on again… :/

Any idea on how to get out of maintenance mode?

(not sure it makes a difference, but it’s an Ubuntu v.18.04)

Thanks in advance and best regards.

Resolved with these:

• journal was corrupt -> removed the folder inside /var/log/journal/<hash> [removed error on journal being corrupt: “File /var/log/journal/<hash>/system.journal corrupted or uncleanly shut down, renaming and replacing.”]
• did an fsck (using the ISO recovery boot) automatically on vda1 but didn’t find anything
• did a manual fsck on the vda15 (just in case) and it was corrupt too, hinted for deleting the dirty bit, which I did [it was ok afterwards]
• disabled swap [removed the other boot error “Swap Timed out waiting for device dev-disk-by\x2dlabel-swap.device”]

=> could eventually login normally both via console and with putty.