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FlowIt

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Registered: 2014-10-25

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[Solved] Update to kernel 4.6.4 fails (mkinitcpio error)

I did a pacman -Syu today, the kernel was part of this update. After the installation mkinitcpio tried to create a new image, but failed. I am currently at an other computer to please forgive me if i don't give the full log. For both the default and the fallback image, I get:

Build hook udev
Error: Runtime script for `´ not found

Stupidly I rebooted and landed in the recovery shell, but I managed to chroot back into the system. I tried to reinstall the kernel and to run mkinitcpio -p linux manually, both fail with the error message from above. Downgrading to 4.6.3 from the cache gives the same output.

Last edited by FlowIt (2016-07-19 16:31:20)

Scimmia

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Registered: 2012-09-01

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Re: [Solved] Update to kernel 4.6.4 fails (mkinitcpio error)

Reinstall mkinitcpio, then try generating it again.

If that doesn't do it, post your mkinitcpio.conf.

Last edited by Scimmia (2016-07-19 15:57:51)

FlowIt

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Registered: 2014-10-25

Posts: 239

Re: [Solved] Update to kernel 4.6.4 fails (mkinitcpio error)

Tried reinstalling - without success. mkinitcpio.conf without comments:

MODULES="i915"
BINARIES=""
FILES=""
HOOKS="base udev autodetect modconf block filesystems keyboard fsck"

FlowIt

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Registered: 2014-10-25

Posts: 239

Re: [Solved] Update to kernel 4.6.4 fails (mkinitcpio error)

Reinstalling bash solved it for now, not sure what caused it so I will investigate a bit and leave this thread open until I have an answer.

Edit: Looks like mkinitcpio needs the bash debugger to work correctly, I had a bash without debugging support installed, hence the error.

Last edited by FlowIt (2016-07-19 16:31:06)