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V1del

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Re: kernel panic during pacman update

If the failure appeared on the transition period the nvidia drivers actively loaded will still have been the old ones with the known issue.

As mentioned in the gitlab, the best way to avoid we've found was to use nvidia-open assuming you have a capable GPU. But unless the issue happens while you're actively running the new 560 you can't be sure the issue is still there. From most we've seen so far it "should™" be fixed with 560.

As for the atomicity discussion, there's nothing pacman can do if the literal kernel it runs on crashes. One thing you could do that pacman indeed doesn't do by default, is setup a sync hook that syncs the written files before the system daemon reload hook is run.

man alpm-hooks

has that as the example of a custom hook you could setup.

Last edited by V1del (2024-08-30 23:09:10)