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lancol

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Registered: 2023-11-08

Posts: 2

[SOLVED] pacman issues after laptop died while updating

Hi all, first post here.
My laptop went from 60% to 0% real fast, and even though I plugged it in, it died while updating. When I came back to it, it wouldn't boot into anything. I pulled out the trusty Ubuntu live USB for un-fucking installs, opened the drive encryption with g-parted, and chrooted into the @ directory of the btrfs mountpoint. I tried a pacman -Syu to try to fix the install, db.lck needed to be deleted. After that, it was still getting "too many errors" from the mirrors, plus a lot of shit isn't mounted so it has trouble installing anything via pacman. I did a pacman -Qkkq to check for which packages are wrong, and here's the result:

audit /var/log/audit
filesystem /root
filesystem /var/log/old
intel-ucode /boot/intel-ucode.img
java-runtime-common /usr/lib/jvm/default
java-runtime-common /usr/lib/jvm/default-runtime
libutempter /usr/lib/utempter/utempter
shadow /usr/bin/groupmems
systemd /var/log/journal
vlc /usr/lib/vlc/plugins/plugins.dat

what do I do from here?

Last edited by lancol (2023-11-08 07:13:40)

lancol

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Registered: 2023-11-08

Posts: 2

Re: [SOLVED] pacman issues after laptop died while updating

looks like I just wasn't mounting everything in btrfs right. I was able to chroot into my drive again and pacman -Syu to fix it