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newbieale

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Registered: 2025-06-21

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initramfs ubpacking failed (ASAP)

Hey,

so I ran sudo pacman -Syu from konsole, noticed that at the last bit (before it was done) it said something about failed initcpio. I did a reboot, because I've gotten it before and everything worked fine. But after the reboot now, I get this message.
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I have no idea what I should do.

Last edited by newbieale (2025-06-21 20:26:33)

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

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Re: initramfs ubpacking failed (ASAP)

I have no idea what I should do.

Boot the arch installation iso, mount the boot partition and check whether you can actually lsinitcpio the initramfs and also whether there's free space on the boot partition.
If the file is genuinely damaged, properly mount the your installation, arch-chroot into it and regenerate "mkinitcpio -P", pay close attention to any errors.

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