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segment289

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Registered: 2018-06-05

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[SOLVED] Can't Boot After Failed Upgrade

Greetings,

I ran my usual pacman -Syuv this morning, and my laptop froze upgrading systemd.  When I reboot, the system runs fsck on my root partition, gives me a warning about the root device not being configured to be mounted read-write, and then stops after the following:

:: mounting '/dev/nvme0n1p4' on real root
:: running cleanup hook [udev]

Don't panic.  I booted from USB, connected to the internet, mounted my root and boot file systems on /mnt, and arch-chroot'd into /mnt.

/var/log/pacman.log shows that I started a full upgrade this morning, and then is padded with NULs.

But when I try to run pacman (with or without parameters), I get this:

# pacman
pacman: error while loading shared libraries: /usr/lib/libcrypto.so.3: file too short

And sure enough, /usr/lib/libcrypto.so.3 is an empty file.  The timestamp is April 28 at 02:40; my local timezone is US/Eastern (-0400).

I can try to re-install pacman (https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Pacman … ing_pacman), but I'm concerned about /usr/lib/libcrypto.so.3.

How can I restore my system?  What else I can tell you?

Yes, had a similar pacman failure about a month ago, and yes, I have been rebooting after pacman updates that include new kernels.  :-)

Thanks,
Dan

Last edited by segment289 (2024-05-01 16:06:15)

segment289

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Re: [SOLVED] Can't Boot After Failed Upgrade

Further poking around shows that many .so files under /usr/lib/ are empty.  Looks like a lot of them are libboost files, and at least some of them are libsystemd files (I point that out because that's where my original upgrade failed).

seth

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Re: [SOLVED] Can't Boot After Failed Upgrade

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 7#p2168347

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segment289

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Registered: 2018-06-05

Posts: 28

Re: [SOLVED] Can't Boot After Failed Upgrade

After re-installing all the packages, I can boot, log in, and bring up my DIY X11 desktop!

Thanks, seth.  You and Arch are amazing.  :-)