[SOLVED] Pacman killed and system kaputt

bheadmaster · 2018-03-28 11:16:41

While updating my system, pacman got killed (there was a message along the lines of "process killed" in the terminal emulator), CPU load got really high and system became unresponsive.

Now the system won't boot. Trying to boot the system results in the errors as shown in the picture (I'm on my phone so typing is tedious, sorry for that):
https://s14.postimg.org/5yegairv5/WP_20 … 12_Pro.jpg

I tried to manually update the system by booting with a live usb, chrooting into the installed system and running `pacman -Syyu` (and the line Trilby provided in my last thread), and running `mkinitcpio -p linux`, but everything ended up with an error. I can take a picture of those errors as well if it will be of any use.

I don't want to reinstall everything as it would mean configuring everything all over again. Could there be any way to salvage this?

Last edited by bheadmaster (2018-03-29 00:31:02)

WorMzy · 2018-03-28 11:27:19

You are in a partital update situation. Boot an Arch liveCD, mount your filesystems, and use 'pacman --root /mountpoint -Syu' to complete the update. You will probably be able to chroot into the system at that point, which you should do, then run 'pacman -Qkk >/dev/null' to help you identify whether any packages are in an inconsistant state.

bheadmaster · 2018-03-28 11:54:34

I did everything you said, and there were a lot of packages in an inconsistent state. Here are the pictures of the process:
https://postimg.org/gallery/1p1qb990u/

Should I force the reinstallation of the listed packages? Will `pacman -S --force [name]` do the trick?

WorMzy · 2018-03-28 12:31:32

Definitely reinstall the packages with faulty mtree files and packages with missing files, I don't think --force will be required though so try without it first.

The other messages (mismatched GID/modification time) may not actually be problems, so I would leave them for now.

bheadmaster · 2018-03-29 00:30:47

Reinstalling the broken packages fixed the issue, I'm able to boot into my system again and everything seems to work properly.

Thank you very much

Arch Linux

#1 2018-03-28 11:16:41

[SOLVED] Pacman killed and system kaputt

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