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Xaoret

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Registered: 2020-09-30

Posts: 7

pacnew grub

Hello, forgive my ignorance, but in an arh update I have observed that I have a GRUB file and next to it another GRUB that says pacnews. I have the problem when I do grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg. When I restart my PC won't start. Can you help me? thank you

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 25,255

Re: pacnew grub

You are supposed to handle and evaluate in which way pacnew files need to be handled by you. They contain changes to configuration files that are not overriden since they got changed by you: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Pacman … nd_Pacsave

This is however unlikely to be directly related to your issue of failing to restart the PC. Did you heed the warning the package gives you that you might have to update GRUB itself as well, by invoking the appropriate grub-install command you used during installation if you intend to write new configs (pacman will print that when the grub package updates, you are expected to read pacman output)? There was one release a while back that introduced a new configuration option when generating the config, which was incompatible with the old GRUB, which maintained you also update GRUB itself with the appropriate grub-install command.

Xaoret

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Registered: 2020-09-30

Posts: 7

Re: pacnew grub

thanks for answering. I've been looking around and maybe this could be the solution. What do you think?. Add these lines to grub
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet udev.log_priority=3"
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="resume=UUID=NUMBER_of_nvme0n1p2_ROOT_PARTITION
resume_offset=NUMBER_WITH_SIX_FIGURES"

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 25,255

Re: pacnew grub

No these lines will be already there. Depending on how long ago your last grub-install command was, you need to run the grub-install you used (... installing on the correct partition/mount point in an UEFI case) so that the actual GRUB is updated so that it understands the new config options grub-mkconfig will generate, this isn't something you can directly influence in /etc/default/grub