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Nexsy

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Registered: 2023-05-27

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[SOLVED] Failure to Boot

Oh boy, my first actual catastrophic failure.

I shut down my system yesterday after a pacman -Syu and yay -Syu.
And called it a day.

Today my system just outright failed to boot, failing to start or mount a couple of services (Journal service, Network time synchronisation, Huge pages file system) most if not all of them are with a
"code=exited status =1/FAILURE" fail message
Seems like the first to fail is mounting Huge Pages

I created a new archiso drive, chroot into my system and did the basics like rebuild the initramfs, reinstalled the Linux kernel, installed linux-lts and rebuilt grub to boot into it.

None of those worked and I am very confused how to proceed next.

Last edited by Nexsy (2025-02-19 14:35:36)

gromit

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Re: [SOLVED] Failure to Boot

Could you post the logs of the failures or if that doesn't work a image with the error on it?

Nexsy

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Re: [SOLVED] Failure to Boot

https://imgur.com/a/Y1sytfs

I have no clue how to get the logs while in chroot, sorry for having to send it as an image.

Nexsy

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Re: [SOLVED] Failure to Boot

So I found this post

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=303429

I downgraded systemd and the dependencies and now my system boots properly.

Scimmia

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Re: [SOLVED] Failure to Boot

That is not a solution. What does pacman -Q glibc show?

Nexsy

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Re: [SOLVED] Failure to Boot

It shows
"glibc-eac 2.40-1"

Scimmia

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Re: [SOLVED] Failure to Boot

And that's your problem, and more and more things are going to fail with it going forward. Arch is on 2.41 now, this is a partial update.

If you replace low level libs with 3rd party versions, you'd better know what you're doing.

Last edited by Scimmia (2025-02-19 14:57:00)

Nexsy

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Re: [SOLVED] Failure to Boot

I suspected that was the reason when I read into the post more, but at least I have a working system to fix that.