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fighterwing989

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Registered: 2021-03-19

Posts: 1

Repairing my system after a crash during an update.

My system crashed during a pacman update, messing up the bootloader, kernel, and all packages. I've fixed the bootloader and kernel issues, but now I'm struggling to reinstall all of my packages.

I've booted into the liveUSB, mounted my root/boot, and chrooted into the system. However, the command:

pacman -Syu

tells me: "File /* is empty, not checked" So I tried this from the wiki:

pacman -Qqn | pacman -S -

but i get the error: "/* exists in filesystem"

Originally, I reinstalled the kernel with the --overwrite option like this:

pacman -S --overwrite \* linux

How can I do this for all packages and is it the right thing to do?

Any help is appreciated, thanks!

ponyrider

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Registered: 2014-11-18

Posts: 112

Re: Repairing my system after a crash during an update.

you should post the contents of /var/log/pacman.log as well as the output of pacman -Q

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

Posts: 77,550

Re: Repairing my system after a crash during an update.

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

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