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wideroger

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Registered: 2023-04-19

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Re: [SOLVED] Unable to boot after crash mid update.

Ok so I tried to install firefox by running

pacman -S firefox

and this is the output

:: Synchronizing package databases...
 core                  121.7 KiB   811 KiB/s 00:00 [######################] 100%
 extra                   7.8 MiB  23.0 MiB/s 00:00 [######################] 100%
 community              45.0   B   978   B/s 00:00 [######################] 100%
 multilib              140.4 KiB  2.08 MiB/s 00:00 [######################] 100%
warning: firefox-125.0.3-2 is up to date -- reinstalling
resolving dependencies...
looking for conflicting packages...
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/local/firefox-125.0.3-2/files: No such file or directory
warning: could not fully load metadata for package firefox-125.0.3-2
error: failed to prepare transaction (invalid or corrupted package)

loqs

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Registered: 2014-03-06

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Re: [SOLVED] Unable to boot after crash mid update.

Try `pacman -S --dbonly firefox` then retry the previous command.

wideroger

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Registered: 2023-04-19

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Re: [SOLVED] Unable to boot after crash mid update.

I tried following this post https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=215396 but it still doesn't work even after removing /var/lib/pacman/local/firefox-125.0.3-2

wideroger

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Registered: 2023-04-19

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Re: [SOLVED] Unable to boot after crash mid update.

Try `pacman -S --dbonly firefox` then retry the previous command.

Ok this works! I'll try it with the rest of the packages

wideroger

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Re: [SOLVED] Unable to boot after crash mid update.

It works! Thanks!

Wild Penguin

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Registered: 2015-03-19

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Re: [SOLVED] Unable to boot after crash mid update.

I was using Spotify and Codelite I don't think it was that much multitasking

TBH I multitask with no regards to crashes when upgrading

But if you know your HW is prone to crashing under stress (we don't know,  but in your case this might be the case????), or the upgrade is humongous .... might be wiser to drop out of X.Org (or any large pieces of software) while the upgrades take place, just to be safe. The software doesn't like to be upgraded while running in most cases (but this should not crash the whole system!).

Arch/pacman should be quite fast in upgrades, so the break should not be that long, and a reboot might be a prudent thing to do after the upgrade in any case. Sometimes I download first (-w) and then upgrade, if there is a lot of packages (so that I can work during downloads).

But the main thing is you got it fixed!

Last edited by Wild Penguin (2024-05-07 12:43:09)

wideroger

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Re: [SOLVED] Unable to boot after crash mid update.

I don't think my laptop is prone to crashin THB but I'll take that advice thank you all!

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

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Re: [SOLVED] Unable to boot after crash mid update.

As for the cause and it maybe not being multitasking:

/usr/lib/modules/6.8.8-arch1-1/extramodules/nvidia-drm.ko.xz

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=293400
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/nvidia-535xx-dkms

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wideroger

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Re: [SOLVED] Unable to boot after crash mid update.

So I shoud downgrade nvidia to version 535?

seth

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Re: [SOLVED] Unable to boot after crash mid update.

The AUR package isn't really a "downgrade" but yes, the idea is to use an older version of the nvidia driver to avoid the bug in teh current one.

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