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gabespound

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Registered: 2023-11-14

Posts: 13

Arch Linux hanging on boot after some maintenence

I was trying to upgrade to the beta nvidia packages, but during the process ran into an error preventing me from using yay.  I had removed the nvidia packages with pacman, and when i went to install them with yay i got this error:
"yay: error while loading shared libraries: libalpm.so.13: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory".

ChatGPT suggested I run pacman -Syu pacman and afterwards I restarted.  I did that, and now when I try to boot, after the grub screen the loading hangs on "[7.034576] Bluetooth: hci0: Malformed MSFT vendor event 0x02"

1) Where did I go wrong (other than asking chatGPT)?  What about the steps I took resulted in my not being able to boot?
2) What is the yay error I posted above about?  How can I resolve this once I get my system working again.
3) Once booted into a live USB env and arch chrooted in, what do I do to restore my system?

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 25,085

Re: Arch Linux hanging on boot after some maintenence

1) Which nvidia packages did you remove and you probably don't get a GUI now without those. You can likely switch to a VT from "frozen screen" with Ctrl+Alt+F2 and so forth to still get to a terminal.
2) You need to rebuild the yay package against the new pacman 6.1 release. Redownload the current yay PKGBUILD and rebuild it with makepkg.
3) As mentioned it's likely you don't need that, but try reinstalling the nvidia packages from a chroot resp. fix yay and then use it to install the nvidia-beta drivers

That said... There are no newer nvidia-beta drivers currently and you'd get the exact same version as is in the repos. Are you talking about nvidia-vulkan? What's your motivation for trying to switch? Do you get crashes? try following: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 2#p2162662