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krey

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Registered: 2011-10-09

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[SOLVED] arch not booting

I just upgraded all my AUR packages and now my system is completely unbootable.

It just hangs here:
https://i.imgur.com/5oBZ925.jpeg

I added the "debug" parameter in refind, but it didn't seem to show anything useful.

Is there a way to diagnose the problem?

Many thanks
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Last edited by krey (2022-10-29 14:54:23)

seth

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Re: [SOLVED] arch not booting

Please replace the oversized image w/ a link.

The boot seems to stall at mounting the EFI partition, so try to boot the rescue.target (2nd link below, if that fails you'll have to use some live distro like grml) and comment the entry in your fstab.

As for the cause, a list of your UR packages might provide insight in what could have happened here.

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krey

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Re: [SOLVED] arch not booting

Thanks seth.

I couldn't boot into rescue.target (same problem). I managed to get to emergency.target, but not sure if that helps.

I now realize I removed a bunch of unused packages as well, so I'm not longer sure if it's due to my AUR upgrade.

I managed to boot into an Arch Installer live usb and arch-chroot. Not sure how to proceed

seth

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Re: [SOLVED] arch not booting

Check the pacman log on what you actually removed.
You can also tail it into

tail -1000 /var/log/pacman.log | curl -F 'file=@-' 0x0.st

and share the link.

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krey

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Re: [SOLVED] arch not booting

Hi Seth

Here is the end of my pacman.log: https://0x0.st/oYXX.txt

Thank you for your help

seth

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Re: [SOLVED] arch not booting

[2022-10-29T12:12:31+0100] [ALPM] removed archlinux-keyring (20220927-1)
[2022-10-29T12:14:09+0100] [ALPM] removed linux-firmware (20220913.f09bebf-1)
[2022-10-29T12:14:09+0100] [ALPM] removed linux-firmware-whence (20220913.f09bebf-1)

Those (at least the first two) are kinda worrisome and you do have firmware issues in the failed boot.

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Scimmia

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Re: [SOLVED] arch not booting

[2022-10-29T12:12:31+0100] [ALPM] removed archlinux-keyring (20220927-1)
[2022-10-29T12:14:09+0100] [ALPM] removed linux-firmware (20220913.f09bebf-1)

That last one could be your problem. Always, always, always check a list when removing things.

Edit: Also see https://archlinux.org/news/base-group-r … -required/

Last edited by Scimmia (2022-10-29 14:40:15)

krey

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Re: [SOLVED] arch not booting

Thank you so much, it's working again!