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dghouse

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Registered: 2017-01-29

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[Solved] A Lot Of Things Break On Kernel Upgrade

For about a year now, running pacman -Syu to update my computer will break my install every time there is a kernel upgrade. The most obvious broken packages are my display drivers because upon reboot, I won't have a GUI.

At this point, running "pacman -Q linux" will return the latest kernel version, but uname -a will return the previous version. I can downgrade to the previous version using "pacman -U <pervious linux kernel>...".

To install a new kernel successfully, I downgrade to the working version and boot from an Arch Linux USB boot device. Then I use mount and arch-chroot to upgrade my installed system.

This solution works, but it's tiresome and I'd love to fix the underlying problem. Can anyone enlighten me on how to upgrade my kernel without breaking anything?

Thanks a bunch!

Last edited by dghouse (2017-01-29 19:53:16)

Scimmia

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Registered: 2012-09-01

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Re: [Solved] A Lot Of Things Break On Kernel Upgrade

This means your boot partition and/or EFI system partition aren't mounted correctly.

dghouse

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Registered: 2017-01-29

Posts: 2

Re: [Solved] A Lot Of Things Break On Kernel Upgrade

Ah, look at that! It turns out that /boot wasn't mentioned in fstab. That should fix it but I won't know until the next kernel update.

Many thanks Scimmia!

jasonwryan

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Re: [Solved] A Lot Of Things Break On Kernel Upgrade

Please remember to mark your thread as [Solved] by editing your first post and prepending it to the title.

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