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jbreizh

Member

Registered: 2012-10-20

Posts: 47

Fail during post transaction hook

Hello,
that s the second time i have a crash during post transaction hook during an upgrade including the kernel. Very painful, pacman fail, i lose progressively every basic command like su, ls, cd and my computer crash showing ext4 error running and running, so hard shutdown !!!
After i had to boot in fail mode, forcing the reinstallation of all pacman cache and it boot back like nothing happen....
Now i am in a state of losing faith in pacman (after 10 years of happiness) and i fear every big upgrade involving the kernel (and they are legion).
Where must i investigate ? my computer is shit and old, my install have more than 5 years (bit copy on différent disk but still old) but i am a little lost because except that my setup is rock solid.
Thanks

Trilby

Inspector Parrot

Registered: 2011-11-29

Posts: 30,543

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Re: Fail during post transaction hook

Where must i investigate ?

How on earth should we know, you've given exactly zero information here.  You vaguely refer to some errors from some programs rather than telling us what the errors are and exactly what you were doing.

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=57855
http://www.catb.org/esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

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V1del

Forum Moderator

Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 25,435

Re: Fail during post transaction hook

Journal logs from a failed boot and in general more information on your system would be useful, read the links provided above.

The post transaction hooks for running mkinitcpio work for everyone else, so you will have to be proactive in providing information.

Mod note: Moving to NC