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SirMyztiq

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[SOLVED] Restart while updating packages and now fails to mount /boot

Hello!

I usually update my packages once a week. This week I updated them on Monday and then I did so again today. While updating the packages my computer restarted, not by my doing and now it fails to boot with no keyboard input! Which means I can't figure out how to read the logs or mess around with the emergency shell.

What I do see happening is that on the "performing early hook [lvm2]" logging, it instantly blacks out and displays more logs where I see "Failed to mount /boot, Dependency failed for Local File Systems, Dependency failed for Razer device state demon"

But thats all I can see. My /home, /data mount properly.

The first step is figuring out how to get my keyboard to work. I tried switching USB connections, I also tried an older keyboard with the throwback keyboard input plug with no luck.

Update:

Got my keyboard to work.

systemd is showing errors when loading Kernel modules.
"Failed to lookup alias 'crypto_user': Function not implemented"

And the same error for vboxdrv, vboxpci,vboxnetadp, vboxnetflt

Last edited by SirMyztiq (2017-10-19 15:36:51)

SirMyztiq

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Re: [SOLVED] Restart while updating packages and now fails to mount /boot

Attempting modprobe in those modules gets me:

Module crypto_user not found in directory /lib/modules/4.13.6-1-ARCH

uname -a

Linux satsuki 4.13.6-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Thu Oct 12 12:42:27 CEST 2017 x86_64 GNU/Linux

pacman -Q linux

linux 4.13.6-1

jasonwryan

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Re: [SOLVED] Restart while updating packages and now fails to mount /boot

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pa … an_upgrade

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SirMyztiq

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Re: [SOLVED] Restart while updating packages and now fails to mount /boot

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pa … an_upgrade

I booted up a live usb and chrooted into the system after mounting my lvm and boot partitions. Did a full system upgrade and it finished successfully. I exited and rebooted and I'm still unable to mount /boot

I was also able to verify that the UUID of my /boot partition matches the fstab setting.

Last edited by SirMyztiq (2017-10-19 15:24:57)

loqs

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Re: [SOLVED] Restart while updating packages and now fails to mount /boot

Chroot in and what is the output of

# pacman -Qkk linux

SirMyztiq

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Re: [SOLVED] Restart while updating packages and now fails to mount /boot

I just went for it and did

pacman -Syu mkinitcpio systemd linux --force

And it worked recovered fully. I'm not sure why the first upgrade didn't update the initramfs image. But after running the above command it worked.

NOTE to anybody else looking for a solution to a similar problem:

Using --force is dangerous.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pa … an_upgrade

It worked for me, might not work for you.

ugjka

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Re: [SOLVED] Restart while updating packages and now fails to mount /boot

--force is as dangerous as rm or dd, food for thought

SirMyztiq

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Re: [SOLVED] Restart while updating packages and now fails to mount /boot

--force is as dangerous as rm or dd, food for thought

Yeah...I just spent the last two hours manually reinstalling packages due to "exists in filesytem errors"