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oyvindsk

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Registered: 2021-04-26

Posts: 3

pacman upgrade borks on kde6 & wayland - Steps to fix

Hello

This just happened on both my Arch machines on KDE 6 and Wayland. Sooo, it might happen to someone else:

* During pacman -Syu  something in the gui crached / restarted, stopping pacman midway.
* This basically left both systems unbootable
* One the second I tried re-running pacman, which did nothing.

What I should have done, before rebooting, was probably to check /boot and see that vmlinuz-linux was missing. This is probably fixed by reinstalling the linux package: sudo pacman -S linux .

After ending up in a unbootale system, I had to:
* Boot from a thumbdrive with the arch install image
* mount / and /boot, see : https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Instal … le_systems
* connect to wifi, for example mobile hotspot with a simple password , see : https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Instal … e_internet
* arch-chroot /mnt
* pacman -Syu
* /boot/vmlinuz-linux was still missing. Fixed by reinstalling linux package: sudo pacman -S linux

(On one I also re-installed the bootloader, but I  think that was unnecessary)

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

Posts: 51,592

Re: pacman upgrade borks on kde6 & wayland - Steps to fix

nvidia?
https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/ … /issues/26
In general, please don't post PSAs on the forum - this would belong into the wiki, except https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Pacman … an_upgrade

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