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nicholat

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Registered: 2015-08-05

Posts: 35

System broken after crashing during upgrade

As the title says, my computer crashed during upgrade, and is now partly broken and misbehaving in strange ways. First off, I can't do a system upgrade at all now. Secondly, during boot, I get:

Failed to start Load Kernel Modules

Besides that, Cinnamon suddenly stopped working properly, Chromium won't start, and even my display manager isn't working properly.

Would anyone care to help get me out of this mess?

Last edited by nicholat (2017-07-29 00:31:00)

jasonwryan

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From: .nz

Registered: 2009-05-09

Posts: 30,426

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Re: System broken after crashing during upgrade

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pa … an_upgrade

Moving to NC...

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nicholat

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Registered: 2015-08-05

Posts: 35

Re: System broken after crashing during upgrade

I've been using Arch for 4 years now, but if it's a newbie question, I guess that's fine. I'll try mounting it, hopefully won't have to fix too many packages manually, or is that common having to do?

ewaller

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From: Pasadena, CA

Registered: 2009-07-13

Posts: 20,612

Re: System broken after crashing during upgrade

Can you get to a console using Ctrl-Alt-F2 ?  If so, a simple pacman -Syu might fix things.  Otherwise, try a chroot

As to Newbie corner -- it is the nature of the topic, not the nature of the poster.  Look around in NC, even the moderators have threads in there (myself included)

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