Cannot login to root

gitlab: 17.1.1 ee (no license probably ce featuers)
ubuntu 22.04

So recently I logged in to my gitlab instance and discovered that it was running 17.0.1, So i upgraded to 17.1.1.

However I noticed that i couldn’t login to my root account i rejected my password.
The problem is only for the root account I can perfectly login with my own account.

I tried to reset the root password with sudo gitlab-rake "gitlab:password:reset[root]"
I enetred a new password, but upon trying to login it got rejected.
Again i tried to reset the password and tried something simple like ‘1234’ and rebooted the server and then tried to login and yet again it got rejected.

Any idea what else I can try or is this a possible bug in the new version?